Agile Principles —2 min read
Trade in your efficiency

Trade some of your existing efficiency in for greater effectiveness instead.

Agile Principles —2 min read
Why do devs want more devs?

Almost always, more team mates means slower output, not faster. So what's the proper solution?

Agile Principles —1 min read
There's always more work than you can do

How are you selecting which items to keep in your backlog, and which items to throw away?

Agile Principles —2 min read
Ready or not...

Should you love or hate the Definition of Ready?

Agile Principles —2 min read
We're too busy building features

Don't let the desire for delivering customer value prevent you from making value delivery faster!

Agile Principles —2 min read
Hourly rate card

$100 standard, $150 if you watch.

Agile Principles —2 min read
Mapping software development

Software development is unpredictable. (And anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.)

Agile Principles —2 min read
Is it safe?

Who said anything about safe?

Teams & Culture —3 min read
Servant leadership

The concept of servant leadership is heavily watered down, compared to our original examples.

Agile Principles —3 min read
Automation is a local optimization

Local optimizations often are useful. But they also often aren't.

Agile Principles —1 min read
AI user stories

As a lazy person, I want a machine to do my thinking for me.