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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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Signup to Generate a PitchWorld-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.
Inspect and Adapt is hosted by Construx. The show has published 70 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "#70 Setting a Context" (14 October 2026, 52 minutes), "#69 Intellectual Property" (15 September 2026, 66 minutes), and "#68 Four Types of Scrum Work" (3 June 2026, 61 minutes).
Inspect and Adapt publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 56 minutes across 70 episodes.
Booking probability for Inspect and Adapt is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Inspect and Adapt requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Inspect and Adapt's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Inspect and Adapt are IT Services & Software Development and Business & Management Consulting. Inspect and Adapt has a business audience.
Construx hosts Inspect and Adapt, a business podcast with 70 episodes published.
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Episode #70
Does your project have a clear, referenceable definition of the scope of the product and the scope of the work? Do you have a non-ambiguous way of setting priority? Do you know how to initiate a product backlog? You can...
Episode #69
Intellectual property (IP) is an important consideration in all software development, but what is it? Contrux's Steve Tockey has spent significant time looking into IP and how it impacts software development. Steve is...
Episode #68
<p>Everyone knows that a Scrum team should do the value-added work of the product backlog. But there are other types of work that may or may not make it into that backlog, yet these types of work are critical for a...
Episode #67
<p>Measurement is all about assigning a value or a symbol to an attribute of an entity. Doing it right can reduce project risk. Join Construx's Earl Beede, Steve Tockey and Mark Griffin as they Inspect & Adapt how...
Episode #66
<p>Why do we keep working on something long past the point where we should have stopped? Join Construx’s Earl Beede, Steve Tockey and Mark Griffin as they Inspect & Adapt the various ways we trick ourselves into...
Episode #65
<p>"How do you estimate something you’ve never done before?" Construx gets that question a lot. This podcast identifies how to approach estimating when you have a lot of unknown items. Join Construx's Earl Beede and...
Episode #64
<p>Design by Contract is used by advanced developers to lower defects and reduce complexity, making development faster. Construx staff experience for over two decades in a variety of languages ranging from Assembler to...
Episode #63
<p>Acceptance criteria are the criteria for acceptance, or so the helpful online definitions say. But what does that really mean? And is the common—almost universal—advice to write little functional snippets correct...
Episode #62
<p>Project risk management was a critical part of well-run software development projects late in the last century. With the coming of agile development practices, however, risk management disappeared. Or did it? Steve...
Episode #61
<p>Scaling software development is hard. Several patterns have emerged that moderately successful organizations use when scaling. The patterns focus on how to package the work, where and when to make decisions, and how...
Episode #60
<p>All development organizations use software's F word: Feature. But what they actually mean by the word is often unclear, since the software industry has two—somewhat incompatible—definitions of feature. Join host Mark...
Episode #59
<p>Total Project Quality, Construx's course on how to insert quality throughout a work effort, hasn't always gotten the traction it deserves. Why not? In this podcast, we examine the subject of quality and our (perhaps...
Episode #58
<p>We develop software primarily on teams, but how do you develop the teams? Construx's Mark Griffin and Earl Beede Inspect & Adapt the different ways you can organize your development team. They look at the pros and...
Episode #57
<p>How should you spend your always-limited testing resources? Is one part of the product more important to test than another? Construx's Steve Tockey and Earl Beede join host Mark Griffin in looking at one approach to...
Episode #56
<p>In an earlier webinar, Construx's Earl Beede took on many organizations that create product visions with phrases like,<b> be the world's best ‘x’</b> or <b>dazzle our customers</b>. Not bad ideas but pretty much...
Episode #55
<p>Construx welcomes Onorio Catenacci to the microphone to ask questions about software development that continue to puzzle him and perhaps to see whether Construx has the answers. Join Contrux's Mark Griffin and Steve...
Episode #54
<p>Construx's Jenny Stuart is retiring from the software industry, and we will miss her! In this podcast, Jenny Stuart looks back on her three decades in the software industry and shares stories and wins from her long...
Episode #53
<p>Why do software gurus keep talking about the Cynefin Framework? What is it? How is it even pronounced? In this episode of Inspect & Adapt, Construx puts many brains on the topic with Mark Griffin, Jenny Stuart, Steve...
Episode #52
<p> Most folks know that the product owner, scrum master, and developers make up the Scrum team, but did you know that these roles are also an accountability triad critical to scaling? In episode #52 of our Inspect &...
Episode #51
<p>To be a professional usually means a commitment to ongoing professional development. Doctors, engineers, nurses, accountants, and teachers all require periodic training to maintain their professional status, but what...
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