Matt Blodgett

Out of all the Agile ceremonies, it seems like retrospectives tend to go to pot first (if they’re done at all). They turn quickly into com...

Many years ago on this very blog I wrote the cheekily titled Blodgett’s First Law of Software Development : A development process that inv...

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...