I’ve spent the last 3 years exploring the in’s and out’s of different Agile frameworks and methodologies. I’ve worked with large commercial firms, government contractors, and small ISVs to adopt one set of Agile practices or another. In the beginning things are generally amazing. There’s a new level of transparency, excitement and shared motivation. At [...]
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Feedback was recently posed on the Scrum.org community forums regarding the Webster-ish definition provided for Scrum by Ken and Jeff. If you don’t recall from the Scrum Guide, the Scrum Overview definition reads: Scrum (n): A framework within which people can address complex adaptive problems, while productively and creatively delivering products of the highest possible value. Mario Čop, in [...]
Leading up to an open enrollment Professional Scrum Foundations on October 10th, I gave a 1 hour lunch webinar on the fundamentals of Agile and Scrum. I’ve just published this out on Youtube for anyone to watch. Let me know what you think. tl;dr There is a lot of misinformation out there that [...]
If anyone tries to tell you Twitter is a waste of time, they have the wrong circle of followers. Today I posted this gist somewhat facetiously asking if the following was an acceptable commit message. Refactoring done earlier didn’t execute acceptance tests. This makes me wonder why we even have acceptance tests. The acceptance tests [...]
This past week, I had the opportunity to attend the Midwest UX conference in Columbus, Ohio. I was incredibly happy to see AIS sponsor the event. While we work hand-in-hand with some great design teams for projects like the Vogue Archive and Rolling Stone Archive, getting directly involved in the UX/UI community is part of [...]