Matt Blodgett

When a product backlog item  (PBI) is finished, there should be some product of that work that is independently useful to the business. Let...

I always enjoy hearing about heretical ideas in software methodology. I remember the first time I read the phrase “if it hurts, do it more o...

It’s not ideal to think of our product as a long list of things we must do. It’s not the best idea to predict when we’ll be done, or even p...

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...