What Do Actors and Programmers Have in Common?
This week, I had the pleasure of attending the seminar “The Way of Artful Making” presented by

Paper Clip Consulting
Clippy - the ultimate bearer of redundant information Remember this guy? He used to pop-up when you least expected him and offered up information about something you already knew. I

What’s Driving YOU to Better Testing? Consider the Story of Amy and Morgan
Don't let this be your

My Experience with PDCA – Beyond Basic Inspect and Adapt
At Rally, we are always working on both maturing and growing our use of Agile. We started with a single development team and over the past 6 years have been through the process of splitting, growing, partnering, and acquiring. We did this while continuing to inspect and adapt our development and our st

How do you Celebrate?
I was raised in the land of big software releases. I spent over a decade celebrating the release of software to gold master at five different companies.  These events included plaques and various levels of behavior based on the amount of flesh that was lost in the release.  A few of them were great, but many of them left a bad taste in your mouth based on what was shippe