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Giving Back: Our Commitment to Making a Difference.
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, where Software as a Service (SaaS) companies continuously strive for innovation and...

Victor Agbebo
2 min read


Schrodinger's Work Item and the Quest for Value
An active item in our system represents both potential value and waste ...until we deliver it, we do not know which it is.

Julie Starling
5 min read


How do you use pace percentiles on ActionableAgile's aging chart?
It is inevitable that there are ways that the software creator intends a feature to be used and there are ways that it ends up being used.
Julia Wester
1 min read


Little's Law - Why You Should Care
Without an understanding of what makes Little's Law work, teams are making decisions every day that are in direct contravention of facts.

Daniel Vacanti
3 min read


Other Myths About Little's Law
Prateek Singh and I recorded an episode of our Drunk Agile podcast to go over some Little's Law myths in more detail

Daniel Vacanti
2 min read


How NOT to use Little's Law
Despite what you've heard, Little's Law is not about - and was never designed for - making deterministic forecasts about the future.

Daniel Vacanti
4 min read


The Most Important Metric of Little's Law Isn't In The Equation
Allowing items to age arbitrarily is the single greatest factor as to why you are not efficient, effective, or predictable at delivering...

Daniel Vacanti
3 min read


It's Always The Assumptions
The Throughput form of Little's Law is based on five basic assumptions. Break any of those, and the equation doesn't work. Simple as that.

Daniel Vacanti
3 min read


What's the Tallest Mountain On Earth?
Geologists fall prey to the same syndrome that afflicts most Agile methodologies. A bias toward finish while ignoring the start.

Daniel Vacanti
3 min read


The Deviance of Standard Deviation
Why is the standard deviation so popular? Not because it is correct. Because that's what students are taught. It's that simple.

Daniel Vacanti
5 min read
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