Last week, I gave the Scrum Guide a fresh read. I did this for the simple purpose of making sure I was remembering the rules of the game correctly, and not just having conversations based on echoes of memories. It turns out that my understanding and recollection had not drifted very far, which was good news….
A few posts ago, I answered a reader question about getting around lowest common denominator hiring practices. It’s a subject I’ve talked about before as well. I addressed the reader’s question mainly as it pertains to the front end of the hiring process. After that post, you might understand a strategy for not really dealing…
Editorial Note: This is a post that I originally wrote for the Infragistics blog. I’ve decided that I’ll only cross post here when I can link canonical and give you the entire article text. That way, you can read it in its entirety from your feed reader or on my site, without having to click through to…
In this episode, I start to discover that castling is hard. There’s unusual movement, the fact that 2 pieces move simultaneously, and the fact that you have to keep track of a lot of status. People have even commented on this being a particularly hard facet of the game. Oh well, c’est la vie. I…
The ongoing kerfuffle over the “No Estimates” movement is surreal to me. So before I get to prediction markets for software estimates, I’ll discuss the surreal a bit. Instead of attempting to describe it, which, I can only imagine, would be meta-surreal, I’ll make use of an allegory of sorts. No Wedding Estimates Imagine that wedding…
