Monthly Archives: February 2010

A recommendation for Boston Scrum Training

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 … Continue reading

Stop the Line. I mean, stop the car!

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 … Continue reading

Toyota: Floor it! I mean, Floormats!

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 … Continue reading

Feature Analysis Spin

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 … Continue reading

Disabling Google Buzz The Easy Way

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 … Continue reading

Scrum added to Scrummy Environments

Was on my mind, so now you are subjected to it. Have a great weekend. Josh