Scrum and DevOps both have a retrospective phase. Many teams use it to solve frictions. That’s generally a bad practice. The Problem With Waiting A retrospective keeps the friction alive until the meeting. If a […]
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How Do Tasks Flow in Albatross, Compared to Scrum and Kanban
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Estimation and Scheduling in the Albatross Method
As argued in It’s Time to Rethink Agile: The Albatross Method Is the Advanced PM’s Choice, it is time to rethink Agile. This article focuses on one part of the Albatross method — how it […]