Ship, Show, Ask
Not every change needs the same review. Ship, Show, Ask matches the process to the risk, without losing quality or collaboration.
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agile 
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Agile in practice: short feedback loops over ceremonies and certificates.
What Is Waterfall?
Waterfall moves through fixed stages and gives no feedback until each one ends. Why that clashes with how software really evolves.
The Phoenix Project
An impossible project, people playing politics, and endless quick patches, instead of anyone helping the business thrive.
What Kills Agility?
Why Agile if you already do Scrum, Kanban or SAFe? How you manage an organization defines its quality, and what really kills it.
Deployments on Fridays
The panic around deploying on Fridays. Does banning a whole day of delivering value to your customers actually make sense?
The Lean Startup
Most startups fail, and many of those failures are preventable. The approach that changed how companies build and launch.
Agile Project Management
Waterfall projects ran over budget and shipped software nobody wanted to use. In 2001, a 68-word manifesto changed that.
Dedicated QA Teams in Software?
Let's talk about the QA position. The hidden truth behind poor software quality, and why it concerns you if you write code.
Accelerate
The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
Interview About XP and Agile
My interview with devm.io regarding Agile and Extreme Programming. Agile is more about HOW you do certain things, rather than WHAT things you do.
Ignoring Scrum to Get More Agile?
Boring meetings are killing agile. When the process stops helping the team and starts owning it instead.
Working Agile with Non-Agile Teams
You apply the extreme programming values and practices. So how do you work with the teams around you that are not agile?
Different Beliefs About Software Quality
What to do when working on "bad software" and you can't improve it because it is against the beliefs of your peers? Should you change the company?
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres on a decision-making process that keeps product teams in touch with customers and improving what they ship.
The Project Management Triangle
A triangle of time, quality and cost. it's an indicator that these three parameters are interconnected. You can fix one or two of them, but not three.
Modern Software Engineering
Dave Farley presents software development as engineering at every level: becoming expert at learning and managing complexity.
Team Topologies
Team structures and interaction modes that let teams adapt quickly and keep software delivery both fast and safe.
Update Your Team to Be More Extreme
Software demands non-stop learning. How to create the spaces your team needs to leave the comfort zone and embrace change.
Red Work vs Blue Work
Blue Work and Red Work, the two modes David Marquet describes in Leadership is Language. Different mindsets, and different languages.
Pull Requests vs Pair Programming
Let's talk about the benefits of Pull Requests and Pair Programming, and my thoughts on these after some years of experience with them.
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide
Zombie Scrum Survival Guide reveals why Scrum runs aground and shows how to supercharge your Scrum outcomes, while having a lot more fun along the way.
Agile Product Management with Scrum
Understanding the product owner’s role and envisioning the product.
Scrum
Sutherland on Scrum: how to define what you are trying to achieve, set up the team for it, and track progress to done.
Clean Agile
Back to basics on Agile: what it was, what motivated it, and what has happened to it since. Uncle Bob's account.
Extreme Programming Explained
Kent Beck on XP, the most specific agile framework about engineering practice, and how it raises software and team quality.
Sprint
A five-day formula for going from idea to prototype to decision, saving your team weeks of building the wrong thing.
Update your team to be more extreme
Embracing change is not optional in software. How to create the spaces your team needs to leave the comfort zone and keep learning.