Many agile and scrum teams start with basic practices to enable self-organizing teams to better deliver on business priorities. Practices include committing to what teams can get done in a sprint, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agile efforts face five common challenges. Here's how to overcome them. Agile efforts face a number of common challenges which, if disregarded, can derail your efforts and reduce any intended benefits ...

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 ...

Agile development focuses on delivering new features or products that could be demonstrated or even go to market at the end of each one-week to one-month development period, called sprints. Agile ...

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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 ...

Fundamentally, agile user stories are short, simple tools to document a single action or intention desired by the targeted user to achieve a goal. The simplest user stories have a format, “As a user ...

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 ...