Why, given that iterative and incremental [1] approaches dominate the literature, does business remain so wedded to the waterfall [2] approach to software development? Over the past year or so, I’ve ...

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As tech companies grow, they often start overcomplicating and overbuilding software. The goal of such companies should be to create a tech process that allows flexibility and improves efficiency. To ...

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A key characteristic of classical project management is its sequential and linear approach to project planning and execution. It involves detailed upfront planning, such as creation of a comprehensive ...

What is Agile software development? Agile software development is a set of collaborative methods and practices for producing software code faster and more efficiently. In particular, Agile development ...

Claude Code Superpowers plugin enforces TDD and hard checkpoints; it uses four debugging phases, trading speed for fewer skipped steps ...