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Jun 4 2025
Through the Looking Glass: On the Data (and Lack of Such) About Busking
I started playing cello in fourth grade, in the suburbs of Hartford, Conn. I can’t remember when I discovered that musicians played in the New York City streets and subways. But I recall that by high school, I had decided that would be the absolute coolest thing to do.  Sometime later, I learned that this […]


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Author: Randall Gordon

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Jun 5 2024
The End of Agile – Part 6 (Alternatives to Agile)
In the first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application development community to a virtual pariah that nobody wants to be associated with, and an exploration of the very important question of what we should replace it with. We […]


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Author: Larry Burns

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May 15 2024
The End of Agile – Part 5 (Misapplications of Agile)
In the first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application development community to a virtual pariah that nobody wants to be associated with, and an exploration of the very important question of what we should replace it with. We […]


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Author: Larry Burns

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May 1 2024
The End of Agile – Part 4 (Lessons from Agile)
In my first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application development community to a virtual pariah that nobody wants to be associated with, and an exploration of the very important question of what we should replace it with. We […]


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Author: Larry Burns

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Apr 17 2024
The End of Agile – Part 3 (What Is Agile Really?)
In the first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application development community to a virtual pariah that nobody wants to be associated with, and an exploration of the very important question of what we should replace it with. We […]


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Author: Larry Burns

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Apr 3 2024
The End of Agile – Part 2 (Critiques of Agile)
In the first article, I laid out the basic premise for this series: an examination of how Agile has gone from the darling of the application development community to a virtual pariah that nobody wants to be associated with, and an exploration of the very important question of what we should replace it with. We […]


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Author: Larry Burns

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Mar 20 2024
The End of Agile – Part 1 (A Brief History of Agile)
In recent years, we have seen substantial pushback on many fronts against Agile as a viable and important project management methodology. In my 2016 book, “Growing Business Intelligence”[i] (a book about Agile BI), I quoted from a 2014 article by Dave Thomas, one of the signers of the “Agile Manifesto,” in which he recommended retiring […]


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Author: Larry Burns

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Jul 5 2023
Five “Whys” of Data Cleansing
Data scientists claim that they spend 80% of their time cleansing data and the other 20% of their time complaining about cleansing data. There is clearly something wrong with this picture, but sadly, my own experience can confirm that this seems to be true in practice. In this blog, my goal is to explore why […]


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Author: Scott Ambler

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