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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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Trading Away Technical Complexities for Increased Simplicity

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. … it’s hard not to think about how much easier some people’s lives would be (hi Mom and Dad) if they could trade technical complexities they don’t care about for vastly increased simplicity and ease […]

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Requirements Set in Stone and Software Made of Concrete

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Twas the night before Christmas, and 500 pages of detailed requirements had been produced. No line of code had been written, not even by a mouse. It sounds great in theory: You produce requirements up […]

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You Shall Know Our Velocity!

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. With apologies to Dave Eggers, this post is not about traveling around the world in a week to give away $32,000, but about measurement and agile development. One objection to agile development we get sometimes […]

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Data Visualization is About More than Just Pretty Pictures

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Too often in software development projects, we’re asked to provide what I would call thoughtless reports. By this I mean a collection of tables and charts that depict and enumerate standard relationships. There’s nothing wrong […]

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Innovation and Punctuated Equilibrium

  This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. In my last post about innovation, I referred to Clayton Christensen and his concepts of sustaining versus disruptive innovation. It reminded me a little bit of the concept of punctuated equilibrium in evolution. The […]

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Why Traditional “Fixed Bid” Software Projects Usually Fail

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. By now almost everyone has figured out that traditional fixed bid doesn’t work for software development projects, especially where effective, intuitive user interaction is a significant component of success.  Over time there has been a […]

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10 Keys to Successful Software Development: #8 The 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. According to the latest figures from the Standish Group, only 32% of software development projects are successful. If you follow our list of 10 patterns and avoid the antipatterns, your success rate should be a […]

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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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Innovation and Treating Developers Like Adults

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This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What […]

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C# Documentation (It ain't that hard)

This post was previously on the Pathfinder Software site. Pathfinder Software changed its name to Orthogonal in 2016. Read more. On a recent project after months and months and hundreds of files worth of work, we were asked to provide documentation for the code. This request could have gone one of two ways depending upon […]

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