Matt Blodgett

After working for many years in the software industry, almost always using a methodology resembling Scrum, there are certain tensions that I...

There's a Kafkaesque situation that develops in companies that cannot retain senior employees. A team feels a sense of urgency about shi...

The most effective technical leader I ever worked with had a track record for coming onto a project and whipping it into shape. His ideas we...

Recently I was re-reading Joel Spolsky's classic blog post  The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code . I hadn't read that post in many...

Vision is so important in software development. Without the engineers understanding the overall vision, they can't resolve ambiguity in ...

It's interesting to listen to the word choices that people use in the daily standup . "I should be done with that today." ...

Spike is fun to say.  Spike! For the unfamiliar, the spike is a concept from Agile methodologies that means a time-boxed backlog item wher...