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Product development life cycle
Scrum at scale implementing Agile at enterprise level in 2026
Product development life cycle

Scrum at scale: implementing Agile at enterprise level in 2026

Agility starts small — one focused team, one clear goal, one sprint at a time. But success creates its own challenge. As products expand and teams multiply,...

Sean O'Connor | 25 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

Application development: how modern teams build better software

Building great software used to be a relay race where each team passed the baton to the next. Business teams handed off requirements, developers wrote code, and...

Sean O'Connor | 29 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

Disciplined Agile: how to build adaptive workflows that fit your team

Forcing a single agile framework on every project is comparable to giving a master chef only one knife for every meal. While it may suffice, this approach ignores the...

Sean O'Connor | 31 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

Technical leadership: skills for engineering managers in 2026

The best engineer on the team doesn’t automatically make the best leader. The skills that create a top individual contributor are different from those needed to...

Sean O'Connor | 19 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

10 best Jira alternatives for issue tracking and dev teams [2026]

The platforms that once defined software project management now struggle to keep up with the speed of modern development. This gap creates tangible roadblocks like rigid...

Sean O'Connor | 28 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

Agile vs Waterfall vs Scrum: the complete comparison guide for 2026

Many development teams believe that adopting a popular methodology like Agile or Scrum is the key to shipping products faster. Yet, backlogs grow, deadlines slip, and...

Sean O'Connor | 24 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

Bug tracking software: essential tools for modern development teams

A development team’s velocity depends not just on coding speed, but critically, on how effectively and quickly they resolve issues without losing overall momentum....

Sean O'Connor | 40 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

Scrum values: a definitive guide for 2026

Adopting Scrum ceremonies alone is insufficient to make a development team faster or more aligned. When supported by a strong cultural foundation, sprints evolve into a...

Sean O'Connor | 13 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

Agile strategy: a modern approach to planning in 2026

For decades, strategic planning meant creating a detailed, multi-year roadmap. But in markets that shift quarterly, those rigid plans often become irrelevant before...

Sean O'Connor | 16 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

Story points vs hours: Agile estimation for 2026

For decades, development teams have been asked a simple question: “How long will it take?” Answering in hours or days feels concrete, but this method often...

Sean O'Connor | 17 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

Agile epics: complete guide for 2026

Development teams are great at shipping features, but that speed doesn’t always connect to business impact. Teams get work done in sprints, but the big picture goals,...

Sean O'Connor | 21 min read

Product development life cycle
Product development life cycle

How to run an effective sprint demo: top tips for 2026

Sprint demos often determine whether a team is simply writing code or building the right product. They offer a recurring moment where progress becomes visible, questions...

Sean O'Connor | 16 min read