Category: agile

  • Reboot!

    Reboot!

    I’m back!

  • Martin Fowler’s Take on Co-located vs. Remote

    I haven’t posted in a while, but this is a good blog post I thought needed sharing.

  • Data Driven Decisions

  • The Impact of Agile Quantified

    Turns out, Rally has been collecting some very useful data!  Have a look!

  • Your Reputation Precedes You

    How do scrum masters search for jobs?  Just like anyone else.  We check openings on places like Indeed, Dice, and LinkedIn.  We submit resumes.  We go to interviews.  We network as much as we can.  In fact, we network A LOT.  Most people in the tech industry get jobs based on recommendations from their peers. …

  • Don’t Take Daily Stand-ups for Granted

    For the uninitiated, gathering every day for 15 minutes to discuss the goings-on of current work might seem a little redundant and useless.  All the same people say many of the same things over and over again.  But to the experienced, there’s a lot more to it than that.

  • Traditional Project Management vs. Agile Project Management: Week 7

    How the heck are you supposed to have an up-to-date status of your team’s needs, let alone an up-to-date status of project progress?  As of last week, we have twice-a-week scrums on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  I can glean only a smattering of what the team is working on at these meetings since said meetings seem…

  • CustomMade design sprint with Google Ventures Design Studio

    This is a really good way to get a product off the ground, and the ramp-up is relatively short!  I’d love to try this!

  • Swag and TDD

    So… while the agile world is debating whether or not Test Driven Development (TDD) is dead, I’m going to talk about something completely random. SWAG Yes. You read that right. I recently received a pen for speaking at a small Power User Summit in Broomfield, CO. I gave a 20 minute presentation on Agile basics…

  • Traditional Project Management vs. Agile Project Management: Week 4

    So in my current role of PM, I’m experiencing the NEED to babysit EVERYONE on this project far more than I have in the past as a Scrum Master.  Here are some examples: No one is sharing information even after I’ve requested it.  I have to pull it from them.  For instance, I had no…