Agile2010: From Change to Planning to just being truly Present
A couple weeks ago I went to the Agile2010 conference in Orlando, and it was a really great experience. I really enjoyed giving my talk on range estimation in…
Software Estimation: Using Range Estimates in Scrum
Recently I wrote a blog post on why software developers are typically so bad at estimation. I also gave a preview of the presentation that I am giving today…
Software Estimation: You are not as good as you think
I know its a bit harsh to insult you in the title of this post, but the odds are, you really stink at estimation. Even if you know youre…
The Agile CIO: Failing Fast and Bad Stand ups
Recently I had a chance to speak about Agile with experienced IT professionals from the 2011 class of the UVa McIntire School of Commerces MS in Management of Information…
Be Effective When Working In a Really Cool/Fun/Distracting Place
Where are Eric and Youssef? This year two OSC folks are working remotely for extended periods of time. Youssef spent 6 weeks in Lebanon earlier this year, and I…
The Agile CIO: Virtualizing Development Environments
Agile teams should be based on talented development staff with multi disclipinary skill sets. This allows team members to easily trade tasks and keep the iteration moving forward. As…
Arin Sime speaking at AgileCville
Im looking forward to speaking next Tuesday night at AgileCville about range estimation in Scrum. Its been a while since Ive been able to attend AgileCville meetings regularly, so…
The Agile CIO: Avoiding heroes
Everybody loves employees and consultants who can get stuff done. Especially if youve made a commitment to a client or your boss, it can be very difficult to ask…
B.D.D. Thoughts Reloaded
Its not exactly easy to get people to read requirement or technical specifications, much less write them. Its also hard to get developers to write tests. Its even harder…
Scott Stults is the inaugural OSC “Code Ninja”
Last Friday OpenSource Connections held one of our regular “hackathons”, where OSC developers get together for a day and work on a development project of our choosing, and then…
Arin Sime to present at Agile 2010 on Range Estimation in Scrum
I am looking forward to presenting at Agile 2010 this year, and I was very pleased to find out that my session proposal on Range Estimation in Scrum has…
When talking time zones: Bogota != Eastern Time (US & Canada)!
Ive been using the timezone localization technique of asking the browser when the page loads what the browsers timezone offset from UTC is, and posting that back to the…