Written by Arin Sime | May 23, 2013 | Agile, Design
UX Magazine had an article last month by Michael Lai entitled “UX and Agile: Tying the knot”, which used a great marriage analogy to discuss how UX and agile are and must be intertwined. At AgilityFeat we are very passionate about both UX and agile...
Written by Arin Sime | May 23, 2013 | Lean Startup
Luxr.co has been providing great content for accelerators on Lean Startup methods for a while, and now they are launching a monthly subscription model that we can all use to access their content. This looks like a very exciting offering with input from several friends...
Written by Arin Sime | 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...
Written by Arin Sime | 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...
Written by Arin Sime | 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...