Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. For business leaders ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

It is time to throw out the textbooks and focus on what agility truly means and how you can use it to serve and enable your business. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network ...

One of agile development’s core principles is to deliver working software at the end of every sprint. Teams accomplish this by defining robust user story acceptance criteria, committing to the sprint ...

One key devops best practice is instrumenting a continuous integration/continuousdelivery (CI/CD) pipeline that automates the process of building software, packaging ...

About 15 years ago, if someone had told David Schofield, an advanced surfacing designer at Trek Bicycle, that one day he and his team would owe their product design process to 17 software developers ...

Over the course of the last decades, there was a steady rise of flexible software development practices around the world. The reason seems simple enough: an increased diversity in products, processes ...