O&B Insights: Sustainable Agility

Transformative Ideas for Leaders in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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“Sprint Zero” Activities Can’t Fit in One Sprint!

February 11, 2026 - Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and Kanban emerged from the rescue of so called “Death March Projects” – projects that had been failing to deliver results,...
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Incentivizing Testers to Find Bugs is Counterproductive

February 11, 2026 - Devs & testers will always debate about whether a bug is really a bug, and such discussions are healthy, up to a point. If these...
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The 5 Common Types of Database Storage & When to Use Each

February 11, 2026 - While, there are a lot of decisions you can make in software development that you can easily change later on, the type of database storage...
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Code the Future: Closing the Gender Gap in Tech Leadership This IWD

April 8, 2025 - Despite women making up a significant portion of the Philippine workforce, a 2023 study by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) revealed that women...
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Clean Code: Mastering Software Craftsmanship

January 21, 2025 - Writing clean code is not just a skill but an art that transforms mediocre software into robust, maintainable, and scalable systems. Popularized by Robert C....
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Technical Debt: Why is my software development getting slower?

January 16, 2025 - Have you ever been the new developer on a team, brought in mid-project or mid-sprint, only to find yourself struggling to navigate an overwhelmingly complex...
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Balancing Automated and Manual Test Scenarios

January 16, 2025 - Imagine a world where every single aspect of software testing is handled by machines. While the allure of such efficiency is undeniable, reality paints a...