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Where Do the Testers Go in Agile?
While I love to write, I occasionally prefer the role of reviewer or editor. I find it a nice break to sit on the other side and evaluate someone else’s work for a change. How much more comfortable to...
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Just Do It: A Quick Intro to Agile’s Technical Practices
A lot of people think Agile is about working faster, but that really isn’t right. It would be more accurate – and perhaps alleviate many of the arguments against agile practices – if we thought of...
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Are We Agile Yet?
I read somewhere that a large number of software teams think they’re Agile because they do Daily Scrums. Now I don’t like to get religious, and I certainly don’t believe you have to follow some list of...
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Pair Programming Games
Last week, Moss Colum and Laura Dean gave the Boston Software Craftsmanship group a sneak peak of their Agile 2010 Pairing Games as Intentional Practice session. And, as a bonus, we got to try the...
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Lean Startups: Learning Over Working Software
The Agile Manifesto, which we created to uncover better ways of developing software, says, We value Working Software over Documentation And we do. We’d much rather have actual, real live, working...
View ArticleLean Startup 101 for Developers
Calling all developers who want to change the world… My Lean Startup 101 for Developers presentation that I delivered at the Entrepreneurial Track for New England CodeCamp: If you like this – check out...
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Is Deploying to Production 50x/Day a GOOD Idea?
I had the pleasure of attending the Continuous Deployment Breakfast with Eric Ries last week. Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup methodology, Co-Founded IMVU who’s known for deploying code to...
View ArticleHow Development Looks Different When You’re Changing the World
Awesome time presenting to the Beantown .NET Developers last night (thanks, Ben Day!). My secret plan is to travel far and wide, getting developers excited about working for startups.You know, like an...
View Article10 Years Later, What’s Next For Agile?
I just got back from Agile 2011 and I have to admit, I was skeptical. It’s been 10 years since we signed the Agile Manifesto and I just had to wonder, “it’s been 10 years – why do we still need a...
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Lean Startup: It Rocks Far More than Agile
Joshua Kerievsky posted this most excellent table illustrating some of the differences between Agile and Lean Startup. I think this is so awesome because it shows how much more real everything is in...
View ArticleAgile Vs. Lean: Yeah Yeah, What’s the Difference?
Is Agile the same as Lean? When people say “agile” do they really mean Scrum? Or do people still use different types of agile – and if so, why? Been getting a lot of questions lately, so thought I’d...
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Kanban is the New Scrum
Maybe it’s all the time I spend with startups, but while I strongly value Scrum’s ideas behind self-organizing teams & continual feedback – I can’t help but feel Kanban represents the next level of...
View ArticleAgile for Startups (MIT Guest Lecture Slides)
MIT’s Entrepreneurship Center asked me to give an Agile Product Management workshop for their Hacking IAP course. The course is a special seminar in management they’re doing for MIT student...
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Hypothesis-Driven Development
You’ve got your vision of what you want to build. You’ve also got a ton of unknowns and uncertainty. You know you can’t just go build it and hope they will come. You have to do it iteratively. Put a...
View ArticleAgile Mindset for Your Startup
I got to share the stage with the other half last week at Harvard Innovation Lab, when Jeffrey Beir & I took turns presenting dueling views on building your startup. Myself from the product...
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