Over the last few weeks I’ve seen a few comments regarding rework. One of those comments was Julie Booth’s (@uxsuccess) comment on Twitter regarding rework, “Do not fear rework!!” That kicked me off with a response of, “Do not fear rework!! /via @uxsuccess so true, plz plz don’t cower before rework!!! :). Listen to @uxsuccess!”... 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 should come up with an entertaining title for these blog entries about the Seattle Tech Scene. But that’s for another time, right now I’m going to focus on the events of this last week. Agile Beer Seattle AWS User Group (www.sawsug.com) Hadoop Seattle …read more… 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 →

There are multiple phases to a software project. In this blog entry I would like to talk about and discuss (please leave a comment or two) what the basic things are that a software project needs to get started and prospectively move through development and on to a successful deployment. The following is a short... Continue reading →