Over at Agile Alliance, there’s a great subway map that shows various aspects of Scrum, Lean, XP and others. Using Extreme Programming (XP) as an example, if you pick a subway line and look at the titles of each “stop”, you may find you’ve heard of some of them – or you may already be […]
Our online, filtered lives
This post was originally titled, “What is blogging in 2018?”, but my train of thought turned it into a different topic. To draw from that original title, blogging in 2018 is not really that different from what I wrote in a previous post on blogging in 2017. Blogging, and by extension our online lives, are still […]
Starting again
My personal site was looking a bit old and tired, and my blog wasn’t particularly prominent. I’ve decided to merge the two. All of the old content has been imported – I’m not fully starting afresh. I’m not all that sold on the theme. Will see if I can find something I like more…
Software quality: why you shouldn’t ignore the small things
When your product to-do list (aka the product backlog) is very long, with “urgent” items or requests from your biggest or most demanding users, the natural path is to focus on the high value work. New features that could bring in new users or retain existing ones. Major bugs. Quick wins. Everywhere I’ve worked, and […]