Scrum

The most popular agile technique at the team level.

EMail the enemy of a scrum master.

One of the biggest challenges for a scrum master is communications.  The scrum master sends e-mails, attends conference calls, and walks around attempting to understand how the sprint is going and what people

The overworked product owner

It has been my experience that most technology problems are not technology problems but problems with people obscured by technology. Many of my professional headaches in business are not caused by technology behaving

The Two Olive Paradox

I have worked in the business world for over twenty-five years.  When I left college, I hoped that I would work with grown-ups who would do the right thing.  Experience has crushed those