Tag: Agile

In this post, we explore how to address technical debt more sustainably. Technical debt can cost organizations time, money, customer relationships, or, in worst-case scenarios, their entire business. What's more, it's probably happening at your organization and you may not even realize it.  Read More ›

In this guide, we explore several methods to prioritize features for digital products and services, including the one we use at Mightybytes. Prioritizing features in cycles can help you manage stakeholder expectations, keep budgets and timelines in check, and improve chances for long-term success. Read More ›

When it comes to managing complex projects, many companies still employ a rigid, top-down process known as 'waterfall'. In this post, we explore how to transition from waterfall to agile methods for better, faster, and often cheaper solutions. Read More ›

In this post, we explore how a Request for Proposal (RFP) can set up large, complex projects for failure. We also uncover why RFPs are not a sustainable business practice and share several alternative and more equitable approaches to finding a vendor for your next project. Read More ›

Mightybytes hosted our longtime friend and author Pamela Meyer at an event discussing her book, The Agility Shift: Creating Agile and Effective Leaders, Teams, and Organizations. During the event, we explored how leaders, teams, and organizations are changing how they do business in a changing world. Read More ›

Whether running a business, building a home, or creating software, the ability to adapt to always changing real-world circumstances is Read More ›

In this post, we explore how the Cone of Uncertainty impacts digital projects and how you can use it to improve collaboration and build something better, faster, cheaper instead. Read More ›

Further exploring the ways in which agile methods can be integrated with project workflow, here are some agile discovery exercises to help you assess the inherent risks and value propositions of your project. Read More ›

In a typical product development scenario, a client comes to you with an RFP or a list of all of the things their web app or website must do. Here are just a few of the must-have items from RFPs we’ve received recently: Read More ›

Interested in learning more about agile but not sure if it's right for your company? Maybe our scrum series can help. We have talked about and experimented with integrating agile methods into our process for a while now. A number of workshops, a few lunch-n-learns, several books, a project or two, and many discussions later, our approach, like the process itself, has been iterative. Not every client project is appropriate for agile workflows and many of our internal projects don’t translate well to an agile approach. Successfully implementing these methodologies into an existing process is no small feat, which is why we decided to devote not one, but a series of blog posts to exploring various aspects of this approach to executing projects. Read More ›