The Agile Cargo Cult
Periodically, people ask whether Agile is a cargo-cult. The simple answer is – yes. Because everything is to some degree. People find something that works and they attempt to make…
There is no such thing as a good field programmer
There is probably some rule of blogging which says that once you start making war analogies you’ve jumped the shark. With that risk acknowledged, I’d like to present a quote:…
The Coding Wasteland
Lately it has become popular to justify any messy code written in haste as intentional technical debt: “we chose to sacrifice quality for speed.” I’m not sure this is a…
Agile is whatever you want it to be
EDIT: Courtesy of Charles Feduke, this post is now available in video form as well: CodeBlaster5000: Dude, you are an agile coach? We do agile! AgileZenMaster23: “Coach”?. I am an…
Elegant Code » Book Review – Extreme Programming Explained
While it seems that Scrum and Lean are getting all the buzz in agile software development these days, why on earth would I want to pick up a book on…
Agile Living
Over at The Lazy Faire, the blog my wife and I co-write, I’ve started blogging about applying Agile software practices to everyday life.