Tag Archives: agile

Making Plans

Emerging Agile Planning Pitfalls Life is filled with best made plans. From recent January resolutions to our travel bucket list, everyone attempts to form short and long-time life milestones. Yet sometimes we need to reset the timeline. A recent goal for me, the undertaking of initial coaching training, has also triggered reflections on how effective andContinue reading “Making Plans”

Just the Two of Us

Affects of Work Environment on Pair Programming Productivity Lennon and McCartney. Tom and Jerry. Macaroni and Cheese. Life is filled with famous duos. It is indeed true that two heads are better than one. Collaboration in all forms allows for diversification of thought that more often than not contributes to a better solution. It isContinue reading “Just the Two of Us”

Grand Designs

Challenges Integrating Design Thinking and Agile Development Practices Have you ever seen rabbits in the clouds? Or perhaps a face in the flames? Psychology dictates that in our constant search for patterns, humans look for context and meaning in the most insignificant of constructs. There is an element of order in building software. Design andContinue reading “Grand Designs”

Bad Reputation

How Poor Leadership Taints Software Development Practices Everything evolves. Technology is a common example of the ongoing digital revolution, with new frameworks and languages appearing at a constant pace. The field of how we engineer software is also changing, with new practices and techniques being defined every few weeks. Agile has existed in name formContinue reading “Bad Reputation”