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Agile in FDA Regulated Medical Software - Sweat the Details

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Very few people in the software development community have issues with maintaining good attention to the details. However, I bet those who live in the regulated software community view the “normal” software world as quite […]

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Agile in FDA Regulated Medical Software

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Testing is a crucial part of all software development. If you don't believe this you are likely just starting your career or haven't had to support an application in production with users. It becomes

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Agile Inception Illustrated

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Inception is critical to get a project started down the right path. Get it right and you accelerate your product development. Get it wrong and you end up in analysis paralysis. Bob Moll and Glenn […]

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Agile for Primary Schools?

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. The NYT had a very interesting article back on September 6th, entitled In a New Role, Teachers Move to Run Schools. I didn’t have time to blog about it but wanted to come back to it […]

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The Agile Lego Game Reloaded with ChiPMA

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Brianna Sylver, Founder and President of innovation research and strategy firm Sylver Consulting, engages a lego sprint with her team. Photo by Nate BurgosThe lego blocks returned with gusto, in greater numbers and colors. This […]

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Agile Considered Harmful

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Daniel Markham is seriously pissed off about Agile. In his most recent blog post, Agile Ruined My Life, he takes off his belt and beats the crap out of all those agile loving hippies. 😉 […]

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Lego my Agile

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. What better way to learn about a topic than by playing a game? At Tuesday’s gathering of the local Agile Project Management Meetup Group, lego was the ultimate medium used by Agile practitioners, both new […]

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Agile Product Management: The Concept Phase

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Academic research is incredibly inefficient when it comes to producing products and services. Grad students, post-docs and professors work on “problems” that some collection of graybeards has deemed “interesting.” Their “solutions” — sometimes successful, sometimes not — […]

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What’s the value of Agile out of the box?

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. I often meet peers who ask what Agile practices Orthogonal utilizes. From the outside, we pretty much use all of XP’s practices. However, if you take a deeper look we do some things a little […]

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Fake Agile: All of the Symptoms, but not the Disease

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  This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. For any software development professional who has contracted out from time to time, this story must seem familiar. You interview and are told that they practice agile development. Once you show up at the […]

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Agile Development and Play: Understanding the Value

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. My Addiction I’m addicted to TED talks. There have been many nights where I’ve stayed up way too late watching them. For those who are unaware, TED is a yearly conference where world leaders and […]

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Building a High Performance Agile Team

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. One thing about agile teams is that they constantly strive to get better. In my experience, an Agile team takes 2-4 iterations to work through the forming stage. By iteration 10 or so the team […]

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