I have rarely had the pleasure of dealing with a company as human and transparent as BigVisible here in Boston. http://www.bigvisible.com/ If you require CSM, CSP, CSPO or other Scrum training, I can say that I have spoken to the vast majority of the big players and BigVisible is by far the coolest. Short...

Some problems or failures of development do not manifest until the product goes live (the servers go up, the car hits the streets, etc). The Stop The Line mentality of manufacturing and the Just In Time (JIT) practices are great at rolling out product, but when things happen quickly, there is not a lot...

I have to go to a meeting but I have to at least say that I am excited at the scandalous possibilities the recent developments with Toyota may have in the Agile community. If they *did* know there was an issue with the electronics (and if there even was one), where does the JIT / Lean come into play?...

It used to be that you could identify the priority of a feature by using a few metrics such as user value, business value, and technical difficulty. Those are really the three biggies, and I think those days are really gone if we are going to be honest. In software development, people love things that...

I’ve been saying for a long time that “Don’t Be Evil” is a nice slogan, but in reality we all know what comes with tremendous amounts of data and information – tremendous power. Google may not be outright evil, but this centralization of all things G- and movement towards...