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agile

  • 2026-02-10

    🪞 The illusion of project meta-data

    Many tools exist for managing and tracking projects: Jira, Trello, GitHub projects/issues, Notion, Airtable, Asana, MS Project, etc. These all can be very useful. Why then does effective project tracking remain so elusive? As mentioned in t…

  • 2025-12-12

    🤔 Isn't this just agile?

    A reader responded to the last post with a comment: Isn’t “agile” a part of product thinking too? That doesn’t seem linear? This is a good question. Agile covers a lot of ground. The Agile Manifesto states: We are uncovering better ways …

  • 2025-11-13

    🚀 RDPD - Release Driven Product Development

    Yesterday we talked about Test-Driven Product Development. Release-driven product development is another perspective. Build the release/deployment mechanism before implementing the design. Automate as much of the release as possible. This …

  • 2025-11-05

    🚀 The BIG Release vs. 🌊 a Continuous flow of Value

    How do we look at a product release? As a big one-time event, where we spend heroic efforts to pull it over the finish line? Or as a continuous flow of high-quality value into the product (even before the customer ever sees it) that is main…

  • 2025-06-24

    🥣 The two ingredients for agility

    ✔️ Low friction: tooling and workflows that allow anyone to make changes easily. (good build systems, clean libraries, release automation, etc.) ✔️ Confidence: what we are doing is not going to break things. (CI, end-to-end testing, review, e…