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All technical debt is a risk to the product and to your business

Scrum.org

I hear the phrase “but not all debt is bad” a lot, usually coupled with “some level of debt is manageable” and, as a software developer, it makes me cringe. This commercial product was built using traditional project management practices and delivered on a two-yearly cadence. But, not all debt is bad!” Subscribe to A Wee Dram!

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Use MVIs for team improvements

Kiron Bondale

Whether a team uses a scheduled cadence for reviewing their WoW such as the use of retrospectives in Scrum, or they use a just-in-time approach they will come up with improvement ideas. Let’s say a software development team recognizes that they need to improve their code quality and to do this there are many options available.

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Unlocking the Power and Mastery of Development Approach and Life Cycle

Project Pulse Journal

This domain facilitates strategic alignment, optimized delivery cadence, methodology customization, increased flexibility, and improved risk management. The desire for a project management framework that sustains deliverability, supports the required cadence, and remains faithful to an adaptable methodology is now within reach.

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Map Your Route to Mastering Agile Fluency

Scrum.org

And in the 21st century for software development teams, this means realizing the paradigm of Continuous Delivery. Delivering Other organizations require the minimal defects and high productivity that allows them to ship on cadence and receive the market boost that comes from consistently Delivering when the market demands.

Agile 201
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Are These DevOps Obstacles Getting in the Way of Your Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

Dealing with Packaged Software The first one, it came up, right? Different change cadences. The package is changing at one cadence and maybe you’re trying to innovate and change at another cadence, right? And, you know, ultimately the thing that slows software development down is fear of change.

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SAFe Simply Explained (Part 1): Core Competencies and Principles

Inloox

What usually started in software development can now be extended to the entire company and thus, change the way people collaborate. Lean Agile Leadership: Managers are the very core of lean agile development and business agility. So agility in itself is nothing new for many companies. But it’s not that easy.

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Release planning and predictable delivery

Scrum.org

Any software that you create is an organisational asset and decisions to cut quality need to be reflected in your company accounts and as such those decisions need to made by your executive leadership and should not be made by Developers. Professional Developers create working software.