Pragmatic Thinking: Leveraging Experience to Navigate Complexity

Many companies mistake adopting Agile frameworks for true agility, but real success comes from customising ways of working to respond quickly to …

The FBI Sentinel project failed with a waterfall approach, wasting years and budget, but succeeded rapidly after switching to Agile and iterative …

Most companies struggle with agility due to rigid structures, outdated processes, and cultural barriers, not technical issues. True agility requires …

Learn what makes an effective Product Owner, why generic job specs fall short, and which key responsibilities and skills are essential for true …

Explains how managing technical debt and distinguishing it from poor quality can boost product efficiency, reduce costs, and support sustainable …

Resilience must be designed into products from the start, not added later. Build systems to detect, contain, and recover from failures, making …

Learn key strategies for building business resilience and continuity, including observability, system decoupling, routine deployments, team …

Explores how optimising systems, reducing technical debt, and strong leadership improve engineering quality, productivity, and innovation while …

Explores how DevOps transformation, refactoring, and ownership reduce technical debt, streamline development, and boost efficiency, team satisfaction, …

Explains why staggered iterations harm software delivery, increasing technical debt, and recommends cross-functional teams, test-first, and working …

Explores how agile teams can achieve predictable software delivery through quality focus, effective release planning, and continuous improvement, …

Explores how technical excellence in Agile development reduces risk, prevents technical debt, and boosts product quality and delivery speed through …

Explores the financial, productivity, and reputational impacts of poor-quality code, and offers practical steps to turn code quality into a …

Professional Scrum Teams prioritise software quality, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring each release is reliable, defect-free, and …

Explains why true Scrum requires real team agency, not just self-management in name, and how lacking agency leads to ineffective, ritualistic Agile …

Enhance forecasting in Agile and Scrum. Use empirical data to predict delivery timelines, manage risk, and optimise value delivery.

Explains technical debt in software development, its impact on teams, and practical strategies to identify, manage, and reduce it for long-term …

Explains the risks of the pick-n-mix branching anti-pattern in source control, its impact on code quality, and recommends feature branching and …

Explains how the Scrum Master is accountable for enabling effective product delivery, fostering team success, and ensuring each sprint produces a …

DevOps consulting enhances Agile by improving collaboration, accelerating delivery, and ensuring quality, making software development more efficient …

Explores how Azure DevOps shifted from slow, two-year releases to rapid, continuous delivery, highlighting the benefits of fast feedback, agility, and …

Explains how Scrum Sprints are primarily for planning, not fixed delivery, and discusses aligning delivery schedules, continuous deployment, and …

Explains how simplifying complex software and committing to change enables continuous delivery, highlighting the need for cultural shift, resilience, …

Explores why true organisational agility needs more than Agile development, highlighting the importance of continuous delivery, quality, and removing …

Scrum Masters with deep knowledge and competence enable teams to deliver better products, drive business outcomes, and foster real improvement in …

Explores why fixed best practices don't suit complex continuous delivery, highlighting adaptive approaches like audience-based delivery, testing in …

Explores why special sprints like Sprint Zero or hardening sprints undermine Agile by delaying work, increasing risk, and reducing continuous delivery …

Is your engineering culture built to thrive on change? Discover how to create resilient, adaptive teams that stay ahead in a fast-moving tech world.

Discover how Joanna’s technical expertise, clear teaching, and real-world Agile experience make her Scrum.Org classes at NKD Agility essential for …

Struggling with legacy systems? Discover how to modernise securely, reduce risk, and build resilience—without trading old problems for new ones.

Many Scrum Masters lack essential skills and experience, leading to poor agile outcomes. True competence requires deep knowledge, practical …

Explains how Kaizen’s continuous improvement principles enhance Scrum and Agile teams, with practical tips for retrospectives, workflow optimisation, …

Explores effective Agile transformation by empowering teams, improving collaboration, focusing on value delivery, and fostering continuous improvement …

Explores how lacking developer control over production, telemetry, and deployments undermines DevOps, leading to fragile automation and failed …

Learn three key Agile strategies: define clear completion criteria, avoid overcommitting in Sprints, and prioritise backlog refinement for better team …

Learn how effective Sprint planning boosts Agile team performance, with practical workshops, coaching, feedback, and adaptable methods for continuous …

Learn how to achieve organisational agility by tailoring change to your unique context, building a guiding coalition, and engaging all stakeholders in …

Incompetent Scrum Masters reduce team performance and ROI by lacking key skills. Learn how to measure their impact using innovation, usage, and …

Learn how tailored DevOps strategies help organisations assess current practices, streamline processes, ensure compliance, and boost software quality …

Explores key challenges in adopting DevOps, including managing evolving risks and closing feedback loops, with strategies for rapid iteration, …

Explains why true agility requires end-to-end automation and short feedback loops, not just Agile teams, to maximise value and efficiency for …

Explores how automation in testing, deployment, and validation streamlines development, reduces technical debt, and builds confidence for teams and …

Explores how frequent code deployments improve code quality, reduce technical debt, enable faster feedback, and support iterative, user-focused …

Explains Scrum’s four key value areas—current value, unrealised value, ability to innovate, and time to market—for data-driven product and …

Explores a developer’s transition to DevOps, highlighting key challenges: cultural change, toolchain automation, and continuous learning for effective …

Explains how to create, apply, and improve a Definition of Done (DoD) in Scrum to ensure software quality, transparency, and consistent delivery of …

Explains how evidence-based management uses reliable metrics and KPIs at team and organisational levels to drive better decisions, value delivery, and …

Explains how defining quality standards, acceptance criteria, and automation in software delivery leads to predictable outcomes, fewer bugs, and …

Failing to deliver a usable product each agile iteration leads to lost trust, technical debt, poor adaptability, misaligned expectations, low morale, …

The US Department of Defence now requires agile, iterative software development, ending mandatory waterfall methods and influencing global government …

Explains why empowering teams to adapt their processes boosts agility, reduces waste, and fosters innovation, using real-world examples and practical …

Explores how practical use of Scrum fosters adaptability and resilience in teams, highlighting the value of flexibility over rigid rules in complex …

Explains why regular backlog refinement is essential in Scrum, how to make backlog items ready for Sprint Planning, and ways to measure effective …

Teams struggle not from lacking frameworks, but from ignoring feedback. Success depends on acting on signals, fostering safety, and empowering real …

Learn how agile metrics like innovation rate, product index, usage index, and version adoption help identify waste and improve ROI by focusing on …

Explores how rigid adherence to tools and processes hinders true agility, and offers strategies for fostering adaptability, experimentation, and …

Explains how empirical Agile models improve project outcomes by increasing visibility, enabling change, reducing risk, and delivering value …

Explores how committees can delay decision-making, reduce agility, and increase time to market, highlighting the benefits of empowering teams and …

Adapting based on evidence, not assumptions, through inspection and transparency.

Techniques and methodologies for high-quality software engineering.