Matt Blodgett

So someone told you that in “Agile” we estimate in “story points” rather than hours. Since you want to be Agile you decide that’s the right ...

  Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. - Abelson & Sussman, Structure and Inte...

One of the evergreen topics among Agilists is the debate of story points vs. hours . My own take on this debate is largely based on what I ...

I’ve had a gut feeling for a while that the existence of a dedicated QA team actually leads to more bugs, not fewer, by letting developers o...

In my post Be the Automator I discussed the inevitability of automation in the software profession, and the need to embrace this automation...

Nothing makes my spidey sense tingle in a job ad quite like the phrase “unlimited vacation.” It’s one of those transparently ridiculous ...

One way of pursuing a career in software development is to perennially jump from technology to technology, or you may say, tool to tool. The...