Matt Blodgett

Kent Beck wrote a tweet recently that had me nodding my head: I feel like this is a lesson one only learns while working for a large c...

In my post, Remote Work Denial Is a Bad Look , I argued thusly: You can think face-to-face, in-person communication is most efficient, ...

I’m big on metaphors, and I’ve always loved Joel Spolsky’s software-organization-as-yacht metaphor: Think of your development abstract...

On a recent Hacker News submission about the phenomenal success of WhatsApp , I clicked through to the comments thread, and read the top com...

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...