This article is a preview of my January 22nd talk at Charlottesville’s Neon Guild where I’ll be talking about my experiences with rapid prototyping. If you’re local, I’d love to see you at the meeting and hear your thoughts! There’s a time to stop and be finicky about code. A time to chose the best [...]

I’m delighted to be speaking at Agile Richmond next Tuesday evening, Sept. 14th, on Range Estimation in Scrum. This will be based on the talk I gave at Agile2010 this year. Thanks to the Agile Richmond organizers for inviting me and I look forward to meeting you there! Here are the details from the Agile [...]

A couple weeks ago I went to the Agile2010 conference in Orlando, and it was a really great experience. I really enjoyed giving my talk on range estimation in Scrum, and I greatly appreciated the large turnout for the session and the great participation and questions. But the real value I got was in the [...]

Recently I wrote a blog post on why software developers are typically so bad at estimation. I also gave a preview of the presentation that I am giving today to the Agile2010 conference on how to combat some of these problems by building range estimation techniques into a Scrum burndown. You can see that slide [...]

I know it’s a bit harsh to insult you in the title of this post, but the odds are, you really stink at estimation. Even if you know you’re bad at it, you’re probably even worse than you think. Don’t take it so personally – I’m certainly not saying I’m perfect at it either! But [...]

Recently I had a chance to speak about Agile with experienced IT professionals from the 2011 class of the UVa McIntire School of Commerce’s MS in Management of Information Technology. This was a particular pleasure for me since I graduated from the same program earlier this year as part of the 2010 class. My talk [...]

Agile teams should be based on talented development staff with multi disclipinary skill sets. This allows team members to easily trade tasks and keep the iteration moving forward. As a consultant, I have seen and worked in many environments where development staff are very silo’d in their skill sets. In most cases they are very [...]

I’m looking forward to speaking next Tuesday night at AgileCville about range estimation in Scrum. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to attend AgileCville meetings regularly, so I’m excited to reconnect with everyone. I hope to see you there! AgileCville Date: Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 Time: 6 PM to 7:30 PM Venue: OpenSpace [...]