Why, given that iterative and incremental [1] approaches dominate the literature, does business remain so wedded to the waterfall [2] approach to software development? Over the past year or so, I’ve ...

Dealing with any form of product management that champions incremental and iterative approaches may make consistency of user experience and brand integrity seem impossible to maintain. Having spent ...

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As tech companies grow, they often start overcomplicating and overbuilding software. The goal of such companies should be to create a tech process that allows flexibility and improves efficiency. To ...

However, we do not often hear about non-profits and mission-based organizations using these approaches. Author Ann Mei Chang's new book, called Lean Impact, remedies this lack of knowledge by bringing ...

Over half of CIOs have discredited agile development, according to a survey commissioned by London-based technology services firm, 6Point6. Three-quarters of the 300 UK and US-based CIOs surveyed said ...

Product development may be understood generically as all the things that happen from the initial conception or invention of a product to the point when a product is launched into the market. It can ...