Matt Blodgett

It is common practice to make a list of essential features, think about them for a while, and then decide that they define the next release ...

I read a great article posted to Hacker News this week called  Effective Communication With Software Engineers by Simón Muñoz. He made som...

In Lean , there's a lot of talk about reducing work in progress (WIP). It's interesting to me that even though it seems that Lean c...

A thread showed up in my Twitter feed the other day from  Dragan Stepanović about the low efficiency of pull requests for small changes and...

In all my years in the software industry, I've never seen a team where I would say the methodology they professed to use actually matter...

In a presentation I gave at a past job, I summarized the Agile philosophy as: "Deliver business value to real users faster." Maybe...

A running theme of my blog over the years has been me trying to figure out the landscape of the software industry and where I fit within it....