Archive - Agility!

Fixed Scope And A Deadline Is Grift, Not A Way To Work.

The iron triangle (time, cost, scope) has been around for at least 40 years.

Apr 24 • Allen Holub

Behind Schedule And Scope Creep

Two failed notions.

Apr 22 • Allen Holub

March 2026

AI Makes Agile Irrelevant!

Here's what to do instead!

Mar 27 • Allen Holub

Embrace Fuzziness

It's the guardrails, stupid.

Mar 12 • Allen Holub

Business 101: Back-of-the-napkin Calculations

Your cost is way higher than your salary

Mar 10 • Allen Holub

AI Is Not Coming For Your (Developer) Job

But the job is changing

Mar 6 • Allen Holub

February 2026

Agile Is About "Uncovering"

We are never done uncovering.

Feb 11 • Allen Holub

January 2026

You can't measure it, but you can manage it.

Jan 25 • Allen Holub

Complex Systems Are Uncontrollable

Complex (as compared to complicated) systems cannot be controlled.

Jan 9 • Allen Holub

Let's Dump the CS-Degree for Programmers

Computer science is not software engineering. We need the latter.

Jan 2 • Allen Holub

December 2025

AI Hype and the Theory of Constraints

Coding is not the bottleneck.

Dec 21, 2025 • Allen Holub

Stakeholders Often Aren't

It seems to me that we all need to significantly narrow the definition of a “stakeholder” to people who have a vested interest in our work’s success.

Dec 19, 2025 • Allen Holub

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