ScrumMasters – Technical or Not?

Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company. I’ve been writing a bit “around” the role of ScrumMaster lately because I don’t think most [...]
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Playing Hockey without a Goalie

I was watching an NHL game the other evening. The team was playing a hockey game without a goalie. Apparently the team had decided that their goalie was too expensive. So they [...]
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There is no TRY!

Learn more about Velocity Partners offshore software development company. I was reading the latest newsletter by Gojko Adzic this morning. The title of the newsletter was – Ho [...]
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With All Due Respect

Giving feedback is one of the things I like most about agile methods. There’s this thing about it though. It’s not that easy to give effective feedback. Lately, I’ve been [...]
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Why?

I’m often asked why I do what I do. It’s simple really. In the late 1990’s I was an early adopter of Extreme Programming while working at Lucent. I was in a leadership [...]
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Earning the right to “Be Agile”

I was talking to the CTO of a company heavily invested in “going Agile” the other day. He was incredibly frustrated. It seemed they were pouring money into the execution [...]
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Happy 2'nd Anniversary!!!

My first Blog post for Velocity Partners was a “Hello World” post on September 23, 2013. During the past 2 years, I’ve published close to 150 blog posts on [...]
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