Inspect and Adapt
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Inspect and Adapt is a business podcast hosted by Construx. It has 66 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
World-class software development requires far more than language/platform expertise and steady sprints. Join us as we describe time-tested, industry-proven software best practices at the team, organization, and leadership levels, sharing examples from recent engagements with software teams of all sizes.Construx is led by industry leader Steve McConnell, author of Code Complete and More Effective Agile. Software experts first and software trainers and consultants second, our team has seen what works and doesn’t work in hundreds of software organizations.Host Mark Griffin spent the first half of his career as an electrical engineer doing silicon hardware design and leading software automat
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#66 The Sunk Cost Fallacy
#65 Estimating the Unknown
#64 Design by Contract
#63 Acceptance Criteria
#62 Risk Management
#61 Scaling Patterns
#60 The F Word in Software
#59 Total Project Quality
#58 Team Organization
#57 Risk-Based Testing
#56 Product Visions to Product Roadmaps
#55 Practitioner Quizzes Construx - Session 1
#54 Stories from a Long Career
#53 Cynefin Framework
#52 The Triad
#51 Professional Development 2024
#50 Staffing the Product Owner
#49 The New
#48 Cone of Uncertainty
#47 Retrospectives
#46 Reverse Agile Scaling
#45 Value Identification
#44 Bringing it All Together – the Successful Leadership of Hardware/Software Teams
#43 Project Managers 2023
#42 Splitting User Stories
#41 Special Guest: John Belbute, Engineering Metrics
#40 Waterfall vs. Agile 2023
#39 Product Owner vs. Product Manager
#38 The Engineering Manager in Agile
#37 2022 Disaster Stories and Improvement Ideas
#36 Right-Sizing Software Process: Going Meta
#35 Individual Estimation
#34 Backlog Refinement
#33 How Much Testing Is Enough?
#32 Leadership for Women in Software
#31 The Daily
#30 Scaling Agile: Three Agile Scaling Frameworks and Six Scaling Recommendations
#29 Twenty Years Is Enough! It’s Time to Update the Agile Principles and Values
#28 Six Ways to Decrease Stress in Development Partnerships
#27 More Effective Kanban, Part 3: Kanban for Portfolios and Programs
#26 Software Estimation Lessons Learned from Covid-19 Forecasting
#25 Crafting Software, Part 1: Beers to Pair with Requirements, Design, & Estimation
#24 More Effective Kanban, Part 2: Operating and Optimizing Your Kanban System
#23 Exploring Metrics: Using Landing Zones to Define and Guide Success
#22 More Effective Agile, Part 9: Focus on Throughput, Not Activity; Plan Based on Measured Team Capacity; Decriminalize Mistakes
#21 More Effective Agile, Part 8: Express Clear Purpose with Commander’s Intent; Model Key Agile Behaviors; Manage to Outcomes, Not Details
#20 More Effective Agile, Part 7: Create and Use a Definition of Done; Maintain a Releasable Level of Quality; Use Automated Tests, Created by the Development Team
#19 More Effective Kanban, Part 1: Five Misconceptions About Kanban
#18 More Effective Agile, Part 6: Refine the Product Backlog, Create and Use a Definition of Ready, Minimize the Defect Detection Gap
#17 Exploring Metrics: Cultural Issues, Metrics vs. Indicators, Launching a Program, and Controlling Costs/Time
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