Communication is important. Communication is even more important in projects using lean, scrum, or other agile ideals than in other projects. Mainly because of the rapid, refactoring, and pairing nature of the project process style. This truism lead me to think, “hey, I ought to write up a short blog entry about some effective methods... Continue reading →

A few questions came up recently that I wanted to answer, but before I answered I wanted to post them to see what others might think. What is the most basic concepts of the application story needed to get started? What should be assumed to be complete based on that after 1 week? After 2... Continue reading →

This entry is from some notes I’ve taken while reading the book Rework. Considering my recent write up “Don’t Give me Rework Refusal!” one may consider me a supporter of the ideas presented in the book. Out of all the books I’ve read recently, this one is definitely on the top of the heap of... Continue reading →

I’ve been leading a software development project for a little over a month, one of my team members and I have been communicating back and forth steadily. Via IM or verbally, e-mail or however we need to. We’re having a good time figuring out things as they come and getting things done in a very... Continue reading →

I’ve seen it on more than one project in my career and it always seems to happen. Agile rarely gets credit in this scenario. People rarely learn what was and was not effective on the project in this scenario. What I’d like to know though, especially from those that have successfully dealt with the “Must... Continue reading →