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You can spend years building out a full, robust solution which may be technically perfect, but is delivered so late you miss the market opportunity. Strong technical leadership is the key.
The Agile Manifesto states: "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software." Here we discuss how shipping early empowers agile development teams to adapt to changes in order to meet that priority.
It can be frustrating when people do not use the software that you have worked meticulously on to produce. 13 panelists share their ways to increase adoption rates.
Velocity is a key metric in Scrum. This metric measures the amount of work a given team can tackle during a sprint. Learn how we increase velocity per sprint to maximize value and efficiency.
You want to protect your software from the competition and maintain your advantage. But when it comes to software, what intellectual property rights do you really need?
We decided to ask members of the Ascendle team – all experienced agile practitioners – to look back at their A-ha! moments while using Scrum to manage their client projects.
Scrum ceremonies are designed to facilitate communication and planning while maintaining the team’s focus on productivity and efficiency. In this post, we’ll look at how they keep your development team locked in and on track.
A walking skeleton is a basic set of code that acts as a “starter pack” for the development team.
This post is one of a three part series on Scrum roles and their part in innovation. Learn how the product owner uses a north star of business value to guide what gets built.
Unexpected tech issues and bugs during development can be frustrating and time-consuming to fix. Ascendle CEO Dave Todaro offers his tip so that you know how to resolve them when they arise.
There are four types of Scrum ceremonies. This interview with one of our Ascendle Product Owners breaks down each of them for us.
Microservices are an evolutionary approach to building software. Learn more about what they are and how they can help you to create better applications.
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In the world of agile development, an “epic” is a user story that’s too big to fit in a production sprint. And that fits right in with [...]
Preparing for your next sprint? Here are three of the biggest mistakes to avoid when writing your product's user stories.
When it comes to user stories, there's a wide range of misconceptions about them. Here are 13 myths about user stories debunked.
What happens when your user story is too big to fit into a production sprint?
Customers love user stories.Project specs? They couldn’t care less. Who wants to read those, much less try to figure out what it all means in the end?A good [...]
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