Matt Blodgett

If you read Scrum literature, you may get the idea that the Product Owner is a kind of dictator of the product backlog, in that he or she un...

I used to roll my eyes when proponents of a certain methodology, when confronted with failures of projects using that methodology, would say...

In Christopher Alexander’s discussion of his Workspace Enclosure pattern, he mentions this interesting concept: You should not be able...

I believe one of the fastest ways we developers can lose the respect of so-called “business people” is to behave like technicians . Wha...

In the Hacker News thread for my last blog post , there were a couple of comments that really got me thinking about the role respect plays ...

In the comments people have written in response to my posts about open plan offices, a common theme was that of headphones (or earbuds) an...

Here’s another office design 101 thing that I want to get out of the way: the importance of temporary private space for people stuck in ope...