Software is mostly hand built by people working in teams and good teams generally build better software more regularly. That’s a bold statement but software products that are reliable, easy to use, fast to respond and get the job done… Read More
Agile Business Analysis Using the Three Amigos
Good outcomes when building software features is strongly connected to having the right insight and information at the right time to help form a consensus on what to actually build. The problem with traditional requirements documents is that they typically… Read More
Collocation and What Matters to People About Workspace?
Most people involved in IT work in some kind of office if they are collocated with their team and not working from home or some other remote location. That office may be furnished in a typical modern day style or… Read More
Servant Leadership, What is it? How is it Different?
Generally, servant leadership isn’t well understood and many people have never even heard of the term. Without any further explanation it’s easy to think of senior employees being negatively treated or oppressed by the people they are in charge of. Even servant leadership… Read More
IT Industry Gender Gaps, Banter, Memes and Office Culture Research from Jessica Drackett
Creating great software is a design process from start to finish. It involves an endless stream decisions about everything, from constructing individual lines of code to the radius of rounded corners on buttons. If the people making those design decisions… Read More
Gender Diversity Initiatives to Change the IT Industry with Amy Lynch
Men have dominated the IT sector for many years to the detriment of the industry. It is important for everyone that the people who are creating solutions with software represent the mix of people who are using this software to… Read More
Attention… Is Anyone Responsible for Your Codebase Quality?
In a pull system the workers pull in new work when they have capacity. They know what is on their plate and they manage and organise to cope. They make judgment calls when business priorities compete with engineering risks. Of… Read More
What is an Agile Software Team Anyway?
There are a few questions I get asked in convoluted form. This is one of them. In this safe haven I’ll try to explain what an agile software team is in the most straightforward way I can. Aiming this at customers,… Read More