Matt Blodgett

In my last post, I urged office planners to ask their people what kind of environment is best for them. One surprising thing they might hea...

I’ve heard from several people who have the power to make decisions about office space, but feel frustrated that they can’t find practical s...

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...