Agile... and the Pursuit of Happiness
I want to turn you guys onto a new blogger in the agile community. His name is Victor Hernandez and he blogs at http://agilehappiness.blogspot.com. Victor comes from a QA leadership background... he is here in Atlanta... and he active in the local a

Managing to the Constraint
There is a part of me that is a little uncomfortable with my conclusion at the end of the 'Velocity in the Enterprise' series. Using a Kanban metaphor at the team, project, and portfolio level makes sense... I also think it is the right way to look at things... but I have a hard time recommending things that I think are rea

What We Call Stuff Matters...
In my post 'Organizational Myopia' we talked about an increasingly common problem with the language we use. We 'talk' quite often like we are delivering a cross-functional end-to-end feature of the overall system, when in reality... we are really only delivering a subset of the solution. We are delivering a 'fea

Reuse Creates Bottlenecks
Here is something to think about. Is re-use always good? Is it always a good idea to have shared services and rely on common components? I jotted down a great quote at Oredev this week but can't seem to recall who said it. "Reuse Creates Bottlenecks". Isn't that what we have really been talking about over th

Interesting Post... 11/1/2009 through 11/8/009
Got a interesting story for you guys...Arrived in the Copenhagen airport today for my 11:10 AM flight back to Atlanta. I looked up on the board... no flight to Atlanta. I went over to the Information Desk and the lady tells me that there was a flight on the 7th... and another scheduled for the 9