I received a recent email from a person that came to one of our Certified Scrum Master public courses a few month ago.   Here is what he sent:
I’m getting negative feedback from a senior architect that agile is “driving her crazy” because it’s treating her like she is in Kindergarten. Why do we need to watch [...]

I’ve shared a collection of thoughts I wrote in the margins of my copy of _Test-Driven Development: By Example_. Please discuss your thoughts as well.

An Agile development coach’s bookshelf needs shelves for several subjects: productivity, development, XP, Scrum, facilitation, consulting, and coaching.These subjects enhance the skills essential to Agile development coaching.

What’s an Agile coach? Someone who says, “Don’t fall”?

This article explains three techniques for generating primary keys when using Hibernate and Oracle.

You are ready to start sprints for your project and are deciding what day of the week to start.   It would be a natural choice to start on a Monday and end on a Friday, right?   For most of us, individuals have been accustomed and have a rhythm of thinking of Monday at the start [...]

I think Joel was the first I heard this sage advice from – you can live with a cheap desk, but you need an expensive chair.
Yes, I too want that really impressive desk in the corner office. But day-in and day-out what I need is a really expensive (read well designed) desk chair.  What is [...]

What’s the guy that invented the Web up to theses days?  No, not Al Gore, he’s saving the world one climate at a time (Repower America). I’m referring to Tim.
It has only been 20 years ago that Tim Berners-Lee had this crazy idea of hyper linked documents that became a paper, then an implementation, and [...]

I get this question often, especially for teams that are starting up in Scrum. Given that there are meetings in every short iteration, it can feel like a lot at first. Let’s look at the standard meetings that are part of the Scrum framework which include Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review/Demo and Sprint Retrospective. [...]

It is vital to the success of a development team that they become experts in their infrastructure and its tools. Spending the time in self-training will more than pay off in gained productivity and quality over time.