Story points help Agile teams estimate effort, but they’re far from perfect. Learn how story points work, why teams use them, ...

In the software industry, in which I have worked for the past 25 years, we often use the adage, "What's old is new again." Today's messaging tools like Slack and Teams, for example, owe a lot to the ...

Technological advancements like AI have accelerated both the speed and expectations of work. Combined with the shift to hybrid work, teams must rethink their collaboration strategies. At Lucid, we ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Consultant Deloitte says forward-thinking CIOs are distributing Agile practices across global teams and creating flexible enterprise IT departments that deliver great results quickly, while a recent ...

As organizations face growing demands for speed, quality and adaptability, traditional performance improvement methods and Agile development practices alone often fall short. While Agile methodologies ...

In recent years, agile marketing has exploded in popularity outside the software development space, and many organizations have rushed to adopt it without really understanding it. The result has been ...

While hybrid work models have helped teams collaborate across locations, persistent challenges remain with teams still wrestling with misalignment and communication gaps that slow progress and delay ...

Scrum and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) are the two most widely used Agile frameworks in the world today. The key difference between Scrum and SAFe is their complexity: Scrum is a lightweight ...

I’ve led teams in both big companies and startups. I’ve built new teams. And I’ve helped fix dysfunctional ones. There’s no shortage of research on the success factors for creating high-performing ...

Agile project management works well outside of software development. Not all elements of Agile can apply to every business. Picking and choosing the right elements for your business can have a ...

The pharmaceutical industry historically has been well known for being risk averse. But the rapid response to Covid-19, particularly the development of vaccines to minimize the effects of the virus ...