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Applying The Theory of Constraints to Agile Software Development

Studying how software is created in a pipeline, and understanding the bottlenecks and limitations of that pipeline, is a more reliable way…

9 min readMay 25, 2022

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Level Up Coding

Why Don’t They Build Cars in Sprints?

If continuous flow assembly is the preferred way to make cars, then why not software?

9 min readMar 28, 2022

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Agile Insider

Scrumban: The Myth and The Reality

If, like me, you assume that Scrumban is a hybrid between Scrum and Kanban, then you’re mistaken. It’s actually something different.

3 min readJan 14, 2022

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Level Up Coding

Why is Agile Roadmapping so Misunderstood?

Despite claiming to be Agile, many organizations still get drawn into planning features in a Waterfall manner. Why is that? And what can we…

11 min readNov 19, 2021

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Geek Culture

Why Your Strategy May Be Failing

Defining a strategy is not a guarantee of success. It needs support by organizational structure, culture, and incentives to thrive.

10 min readOct 25, 2021

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UX Collective

Combining Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking — a layered approach

A novel way to harness all three that works to combine their strengths in a concurrent and intertwined fashion.

15 min readJul 13, 2021

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Better Programming

To Comment Code, or Not to Comment Code, That Is the Question

On the surface, it would seem like a detail, but many people are passionate about whether code should be commented on or not

8 min readJun 8, 2021

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Serious Scrum

Scrum: The Good Parts

Even as a skeptic, I have to admit that Scrum does contain some very good elements. Let’s see what those are…

5 min readMay 11, 2021

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Geek Culture

What Is an Agile Framework, Anyway?

The term is used everywhere, but what does it actually mean?

7 min readApr 17, 2021

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Level Up Coding

Closing the Code Review Gap

Do you ever feel like it takes an eternity for your code to be reviewed, and once it does get reviewed the code base has already moved on?

16 min readApr 1, 2021

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Raj Nagappan

Raj Nagappan

PhD, software engineer, author. Helping teams to craft better products that customers love. Connect at linkedin.com/in/rajnagappan

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