Susan Prior drops in on Kate to talk about some new products she would like developed.

I get about 300 spam e-mails every day. A Bayesian mail filter, POPFile, puts most of these into a folder for suspected spam. Once in a while an email that should reach me goes into that folder. I check the…

Here, in order, are the online chapters of Annals of Kate Oneal

The traditional CSM course is only two days. That’s not enough time to cover the things a ScrumMaster needs to know to help their team be successful.

Recent discussions on the lists inspire me to take a radical position. Or maybe it’s my life. Or an accident of birth. Anyway: Agile Software Development requires software development.

MUCH LATER: Organizations certainly need good productivity. Sometimes they ask for improved productivity, and a way to show that we have improved. Is this always evil?

Carl is concerned about small releases, and catches Kate in the coffee room. They talk about why small releases matter to Kate, and they both learn a bit.

After Dan Devlin, President of Oak River Software, dropped in on her at the coffee shop, Kate agreed to consider helping with the proposed new Empire project. Empire was life or death for Oak River. Without Empire, they’d go under, and Dan couldn’t afford to fund it.