by arin | May 22, 2013 | Agile
When teams move to Scrum from a more chaotic development method, there is often a struggle with convincing the new Product Owner (or the business folks that they report to) that the team cannot be retargeted on a whim. A benefit of Scrum is that teams get to focus...
by arin | May 21, 2013 | Nearshore Agile
When AgilityFeat first started doing software development in Costa Rica, I would tell people that we could build anything. Mobile apps? You got it. Web applications? Sure, why not! .NET outsourcing? Sure, I’ve managed .NET teams before, we can do that! Fixed...
by arin | May 9, 2013 | User Group Reports
Last week I was in Portland Oregon for RailsConf 2013. Portland is a great city with beautiful views of mountains that us East Coasters dream of, unusually good weather (last week anyways), and a very entertaining soccer team. But none of that is why I spent a week...
by arin | Apr 24, 2013 | Lean Startup
Do you have a question about agile, scrum, kanban, lean startups, or maybe just how the heck did I start a business in Costa Rica? I’m making myself available for some free consulting advice this week and next, and I’d be happy to give you some time for...
by arin | Apr 22, 2013 | Agile
I’d like to share with you a common cadence that we are using on agile teams that I coach, and also on many of AgilityFeat’s development teams with our clients. For an agile team to get into a solid rhythm of work, they need to have a set cadence of...
