CoFounder at VenturePact Passionate about software, marketplace startups & remote work. Previously at SilverLake Partners, Ampush and Wharton.
In the early 1920s, Ward Cunningham, in a report for OOPSLA ’92, talked about accruing debt when working on a software project. Drawing upon the analogy of financial debt, he said, “Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite … The danger occurs [...]
Most organizations are constantly struggling with complex development products and are in search for a few straightforward and easy to learn methods to help deal with their problems. Some of these books provide great actionable tips on planning, development and team building. 1. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great By Esther [...]
Scrum and Kanban lead to the evolution of Scrumban. It combines the best of both worlds and shares several similarities with Scrum while borrowing cultural nuances from Kanban. It is a hybrid environment which is used for agile product lines with frequent interruptions. Scrumban uses fixed-size pieces of work for development and tracks [...]
As a part of the VenturePact agile series, we have been regularly sharing agile development posts. Keeping up the same agile spirit, today we begin an interview series, which will bring to you the experts’ take on agile/scrum methodology. As the first interview, we present to you our conversation with Nada Aldahleh, Co-Founder and CEO at [...]
Story Mapping is a great agile technique which helps product owners visualize the bigger picture while keeping all user story elements in perspective. It also helps stakeholders stay updated about the project progress. Thus, optimizing story maps is important, especially when you are working with distributed teams where coming together [...]
The essence of agile is to thrive for continuous improvement through empirical process control. True agile teams find ways to improve through experimentation, finding sustainability, and delivering business value earlier. It is a never-ending journey, and a sprint retrospective emerges as an opportunity to further accelerate this [...]
How do we keep our product backlog clean when it’s bloated with so much information all the time? Well, this question had occupied my mind for a while until I recently stumbled upon a related discussion on LinkedIn. This discussion gave me insights into some rules for managing a product backlog and having it lean. I am listing down 7 of [...]
After being a buzzword for years, Agile has now become the go-to development methodology for most entrepreneurs. However, if your development team is remote, working on agile is a challenge. In this article, we highlight some conflicts which arise while you are working with distributed agile teams. Let’s identify these issues and [...]
Agile development has become a standard approach for most software development teams today. Most customers at VenturePact are becoming more particular about implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies in their product development process. But many people do not know how software development has evolved in the last 30 years. In this post, [...]
The largest event of the year, South by Southwest (SXSW), has arrived. The annual Austin, Texas event is more than just a conference – it is a competition, an exhibit, and a networking event – all clustered into one. Or as they call it, “a unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies”. [...]