I’ve been talking a lot lately on this blog about using Scrum for project management. Some feedback that I’ve been getting is what is this Scrum thing, and how can I learn more about it or implemen...

Helps the Scrum team to understand that it is self managed. It is the Scrum master’s job to ease this transition. Has no authority over the development teams. They are only there to ensure that t...

I received an email from a visitor to my site the other day. He was from webhost4life.com and was responding to my post in where I praised his company. I came across this post http://www.mattbe...

Last week, our organization brought in Jeff Sutherland (the father of scrum) to certify numerous people (myself included) as scrum masters. We wanted to do this, so that we could baseline what scru...

I love having an empty desktop without any clutter from icons. It seems that every time I repave my box I end up having to scour the web for information on how to make this happen, so Im mostly pos...

At work, we like to group methods together by scope, meaning that all private methods are group together, and so on. The best way we’ve found to handle this is to define regions for each scope leve...

Every single one of us has written cheesy code at one time or the other in our life. Our team, in good-natured fun, has decided to “reward” the person that commits a piece of cheese to our Subversi...

Recently, I came across this gem from Martin Fowler’s site called “It’s Not Just Standing Up: Patterns for Daily Stand-up Meetings”. If your stands up are starting to hit a rut, you will definitely...

This was a question our development team was struggling with coming into the new year. I can firmly say that yes, agile development (even when not done completely right) is much better and much mor...

I’m pretty surprised that I haven’t seen more fuss about XPathMania, which is a fantastic tool put together by DonXml Demsak. This little Visual Studio addin creates a VS tool window where a deve...