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 [...]

Everybody loves employees and consultants who can get stuff done. Especially if you’ve made a commitment to a client or your boss, it can be very difficult to ask for an extension to that timeline. It’s much easier to ask your team to put in the extra hours to get the job done, even if [...]