Most comparisons of Scrum, Kanban, and Albatross are about philosophy. This one is about cells. Five people. Sixty days. The same work, done three ways. One cell is one person, one day. The cells show […]
Kanban Can Run Bad
Kanban can run bad. Not straying away from being a Kanban, but running straight into a strangling mess. That’s the part people miss. Kanban doesn’t just let bad work through. It produces it. A card […]
Why Scrum Has Sprints
Scrum does not support parallel development of features. Not because it forbids it. Anyone can split a team across two features. It’s that Scrum gives the team no way to know whether the split is […]
Why Agile vs. Waterfall Is a False Choice
Every sprint is a mini-waterfall. Every Kanban board is a view of Waterfall’s middle phases. The debate assumes teams chose either Agile or Waterfall. Most teams are running both — and the methods don’t describe […]
Both Look Like a Sequence. Only One Expects the World to Change.
The Albatross Method vs. Waterfall: A Structural Comparison If you have read my description of the Albatross method, you may have had a reaction I hear often: “That looks like Waterfall.” I understand why. Albatross […]
The Albatross Method: The Next Generation of Agile for Long-Run Software
Most software does not get built once. It gets built, shipped, used, and then changed—for years. The frameworks the industry has relied on—Scrum and Kanban—were designed for prototyping, exploration, and iteration that can be reset […]
AI Won’t Replace Programmers, Until …
Or: the body is here, but the mind is somewhere else There’s a genre of article that says AI is about to replace programmers. The subtext is always: the age of the human coder is […]
The Albatross Method as a Structural Fix for Tech Debt
This is a follow-up to Why Tech Debt Never Gets Repaid — It’s Not Visibility, It’s Incentives. That article argued the blocker is structural: the party responsible for delivery quality has no authority over the […]
Why Tech Debt Never Gets Repaid — It’s Not Visibility, It’s Incentives
Every article on technical debt prescribes the same treatment: make it visible. Track it. Put it in the same system as features. Dedicate sprint time to it. Map where friction is worst. The assumption running […]
System Design in the Albatross Method: Diagrams, Listing, and Team Agreement
Introduction The Albatross method is a project management approach designed for modern software teams. For readers new to Albatross, a full introduction is available here: It’s Time to Rethink Agile: The Albatross Method Is the […]