In the world of software development, most organizations use the scrum-agile approach or a kanban approach. But it’s not unusual to find organizations that wonder if the other way might be better. That usually happens with organizations that are entrenched in the way they develop software via scrum methodology, and they start to wonder if [...]
At LSG Solutions, we're firm believers in the fact that systematic processes lead to more predictable outcomes, and that lessons learned create even more predictability over time. It's a lesson I learned while working at a manufacturing plant during college. They allocated time for employees to think about process improvement and implement ideas, which had [...]
There was a time in the past (and still today at some companies) that software developers and users suffered from shiny object syndrome. Big ideas got tossed around and started, but projects didn't get finished, or they looked dramatically different than the original idea. Often those projects started with too many requirements or a lack [...]
In the IT world, there are many projects that are too large and complex to be successfully managed in one piece with a defined single point of completion. Once the industry realized this in the early 2000s, the process of agile development was born. Agile development is about ongoing delivery and continual improvement of software, [...]
Long before agile software development started to mature, LSG leader Alan Sheppard recognized that there were significant challenges in the way things were done. Organizations struggled to create and manage a product when trying to balance the software developers' approach, the business expectations, and the conservative risk managers' requirements. Too many people couldn't see eye [...]