Matt Blodgett

The Product Owner has the final say in backlog prioritization. But who writes the backlog? Is it always the product owner? My experience ...

I feel like every job I've ever had in software there has been some old legacy system hanging around that everyone denigrated and perenn...

There are tensions in Scrum anywhere you have intra-sprint cycles that must resolve by the end of the sprint. In my last post I wrote about ...

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...