It's always good to give back! I recently started Momtorials for none other than my Mom. She's increasinly eager to get online but oftentimes gets lost because quite honestly, we in the web world make things overly complex. It's a fun project and I'm ...
Read moreRecently I came across an interesting article from SEI at Carnegie Mellon. Having spent a significant amount of time with companies using CMM, ISO, CMMI, Agile etc. at various levels of the organization it’s rather intriguing to consider weaving these ...
Read moreIt's been nearly a year since I first dipped a toe into the Ruby on Rails community. What started as vague curiosity has exploded into full-on fascination with all things RoR, so it was that I decided to attend RailsConf.
Read moreThe other day a colleague asked, 'in addition to being a Certified Scrum Product Owner, what is it that you're reading'. It was somewhat difficult to answer because in any given week I've got my head buried in a stack of books, blogs and articles but here's ...
Read moreAll too often there comes a point in a project that we begin to wonder, "Where are we going?" Regardless of size of the project there seems to be a tendency to reach a point of uncertainty in the overall direction of the project. The disconnect permeates ...
Read moreAlthough at times a bit chaotic, we simulated using Scrum in an end-to-end project using balloons, string, paper-clips and tape which provided a great experiential learning environment and made the subject matter "sticky".
Read moreWow! Just this week I was brainstorming with a client about how to best convert a legacy website. During our discussion I was doing a paper sketch on what the site might look like, how it would integrate and what the structure might feel like. This is a ...
Read moreIn preparation for a Scrum Product Owner certification workshop I’m attending next month, I’ve been doing a bit of research that I thought I might share. Typically, I would try to keep the techno-babble to a minimum but I thought this video had ...
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