Matt Blodgett

Hopefully we’re all familiar with Parkinson’s law of triviality : Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a ...

I remember being blown away when I first saw Cucumber roughly a decade ago. It was like writing documentation, and then executing the docum...

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...