It’s that time again – time for companies to begin new projects in the new year. Ideas have been gathered and technology departments have estimated the effort needed, usually based on very little information. An annual ritual that is so challenging that acronyms like “SWAG” have been created to imply some of the uncertainty in… Read More

Name something more ubiquitous to our daily life than a mobile phone. Go ahead… take your time, I’ll wait. It’s unlikely you will find an appropriate answer because recent statistics indicate that over 95 percent of the adult population now own a mobile phone and of those, 77 percent are smart phones. So… what are… Read More

In my years of experience as a scrum master, I’ve encountered numerous situations where scrum has resulted in less-than-ideal outcomes—not because the agile framework is flawed, but because the company didn’t understand, or disregarded, how scrum is supposed to work. For example, I was once a scrum master for an e-commerce website production team where… Read More