Cheney Who?

Y’know what? I’m really not interested in what Cheney thinks any more. He should return to the south pole with the other penguins.

CSM for Raikes School, Lincoln NE

For the past few years, I’ve been doing a little Agile coaching at the Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Before Spring Break, Chet and I visited and helped them do…

Important Dietary Calculation

A pizza of radius z and thickness a has volume pi*z*z*a

Per Jens Ohlig, twitter “johl”

My Named Cloud Is Better Than Your Named Cloud

We humans like to take a very soft cloud of ideas and give it a name, such as Waterfall or Scrum or Lean or Kanban,  in an attempt to get a better handle on some good ideas. We also seem…

Kanban as Cure for “Failed Iterations”?

What should an iterative-Agile team do if it appears that not all the stories they signed up for will get done? Possibilities include:

Just get done what you can, velocity is velocity;
Crunch really hard because you’ve made a commitment;

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Automating Story Tests

OK, let’s talk, for the ten thousandth time, about when story (acceptance) tests should be automated, and when they should not. I’m patient, in a manner of speaking. I can keep doing this until you get it.

Prezi Testi

This is a test of an embedded Prezi. It has no actual useful content. If this had been an actual article it would have been interesting. Wish me luck.

Is All This Success Actually Failure?

There’s a bit of a tempest going around …