The idea of getting certified in “Scrum” or “Agile” is philosophically unsettling to me. It’s not so much that I think learning how experienced people execute these processes is a bad thing (I’ve even signed off on such a course for an employee’s career development aspirations), but rather the overtones of such a certification. Certifications…
I went shopping for jeans last weekend, which was, as always, somewhat of an aggravating experience. It’s not just jeans, but, really, any wearable thing: shoes, work shirts, belts, even socks. The source of my irritation is the fact that I can’t simply replace items I have that are worn out because the thing you…
I’m going to perform a slight experiment on myself in this post. As I type this second sentence, I have only a general idea for a post in mind, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this will be a relatively short post. I won’t come back and edit this…
I was recently out to dinner with some friends that are fellow techies, and we were talking about software development methodologies. One of them, who works in a shop that practices pretty true-to-form Scrum, was talking about how management via the product owner was starting to put pressure on them to produce certain, lower point…
A Tale of Debugging The other day, someone came to me and told me that a component of one of the web applications that my team maintains seemed to have a problem. I sat with her, and she showed me what was going on. Sure enough, I saw the issue too. It was the kind…
