Matt Blodgett

"What do our QA people do at the beginning of a sprint before the developers have coded any user stories for them to test?" - Eve...

I tend to see technical debt discussed in a hand-wavy, fuzzy way, in which it's taken for granted that everyone knows exactly what it m...

A pet peeve of mine is when people say "user story" as a generic term for any discrete chunk of work the team needs to accomplish....

How do we work together when our people are spread across multiple time zones? It seems like this is one of the core questions that companie...

As 2020 has undoubtedly been the watershed year for remote work, I've been thinking a lot lately about colocation and its relevance to ...

We've all heard the Golden Rule , which goes something like: Treat others the way you want to be treated. Well, my Golden Rule of Interv...

Agile pioneer Alistair Cockburn introduced the concept of the Walking Skeleton : ...a tiny implementation of the system that performs a sma...