Times A Wastin’!!!!

One thing I love about Agile is the amount of time spent in meetings.  Lots. On many teams we instituted a “no-afternoon” meeting rule too.  There are stats that will tell you even a single IM interruption will take up to 25 minutes to recover from (you’d better look that up).  These days our Shift […]

Top Down “Agile” — Another Story

Last year I was working at Huge Company, Inc. and they were trying to implement some agile.  I was brought in as one of those stack lead developers — domain, UI, smile, do a jig etc.  But soon I found myself leading two development/qa teams and kinda of a nightmare on my hands — top-down […]