Another year is upon us! After the past two turbulent years we have all experienced, it is difficult to know what to expect anymore. The same holds true with project management. As I work more closely with teams and organizations that are trying to find any advantage that might be…

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) defines Cloud Native as “technologies [that] empower organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds. Containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs exemplify this approach”. Cloud native is a modern approach to…

I’m sure you have heard of the term “do more with less”, which sounds like a common sense goal that we should all aspire towards, but does it always make sense? Is it always possible? What would we have to sacrifice in order to achieve this? In the Agile…

Assessing your system’s reliability through SLOs is a great way to really understand and measure how happy users are with your service(s). Error Budgets give you the amount of reliability you have left before users are unhappy. Ideally, you want to be alerted way before users are dissatisfied and take…

Backlog Refinement, or commonly known as “Backlog Grooming”, is an essential activity that many Scrum teams fail to execute consistently due to the perceived “overhead”. …

One of the most common questions I receive may feel like one of the most difficult decisions for an organization new to Agile must make. Choosing between Scrum or Kanban method often seems like a critical fork in the road that cannot be undone. From my experience working with many…

Backlog Refinement, or commonly known as “Backlog Grooming”, is an essential activity that many Scrum teams fail to execute consistently due to the perceived “overhead”. Also, some teams choose to ignore this practice simply because the Scrum Guide does not make this a core event; even as a “recommended” event…

When the competition is just a few clicks away, you can’t afford to ship poor quality software; if you do, you’re begging for your clients to become former clients. However, getting yourself familiar with the topic of software quality can be challenging. With so much jargon and constantly changing technical…

SmartBear is a platform encompassing best practice enforcement tools. These tools range from design and development quality to test automation for seamless-yet-safe integration to performance optimization solutions. As wide as this high-level take suggests, ensuring a complete solution for your organization, no matter the size, requires a more deliberate effort…