The Agile Dev Lab is open for business at Agile 2012 in Dallas Texas! This week we will be here from 9am-5pm Tuesday - Thursday doing Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) with Cucumber and Ruby to build the website wishlisting.org...
This post is part of my ongoing "BizDev Travels" series. Philadelphia, PA - July 30 2012 I made a stop in Philadelphia on Monday July 30 as part of my recent biz dev travels. There's a lot going on in Philadelphia's entrepreneur scene. ...
Looking for a Partner not a Client As developers we are constantly striving to create a valuable product for our customer, but if that development process is going to be successful then both the customer and our team have to be involved...
This post is part of my ongoing "BizDev Travels" series. Boston, Massachusetts - July 26 2012 The final stop of my day on Thursday was to a meetup for crowdfunding. This was billed as the first ever in person crowd funding event in the...
This post is part of my ongoing "BizDev Travels" series. Cambridge, Massachusetts - July 26 2012 After my previous visit to Babson College's Demo Day, I headed over to 1 Broadway in Cambridge to check out the regular Thursday gathering...
This post is part of my ongoing "BizDev Travels" series. Babson Park, Massachusetts - July 26 2012 I spent two days in the Boston area, and I had intended for my first stop to be a morning meeting up of entrepreneurs, but traffic in New...
I hinted at it previously, but now the fancy landing page is ready and I am proud to invite you to join us in Costa Rica in early 2013 for an awesome 3 day hands on workshop for entrepreneurs! The workshop is called Dare To Be Lean, and...
If business development is all about meeting people, then I'm going to be doing more classic customer development and "get out of the office." My plan to promote AgilityFeat's development services and our upcoming DareToBeLean workshop...
The Potential Pitfalls of Outsourced Development If you are looking for a nearshore agile team for a project there are some common problems to look out for, or you risk losing time and money. The short and sweet summary of these problems...
Do you have a project idea but don't know what it will take to get it done? Do you have a software development project going now but need a different perspective? I love meeting with other entrepreneurs and startups and talking tech. I've...
I've blogged before about what a great place Costa Rica is to do business if you are considering nearshoring to Latin America, and so I want to reiterate that from another source. Here are a few paragraphs excerpted from "Doing Business...
Are you an entrepreneur, investor, or startup developer in Philadelphia? Let's meet and talk startups! My Office Hours Do you have pressing questions about your startup you would like to ask a developer and entrepreneur? I'd love to give...
Do you have a project idea but don't know what it will take to get it done? Do you have a software development project going now but need a different perspective? I love meeting with other entrepreneurs and startups and talking tech. I've...
Words to know and live by for a lean Startup Here at Agility Feat we use Lean methods to keep our business responsive and effective. But what does it mean to be Lean? Listed below are some of the core concepts of being Lean that we...
Let's Meet! My Office Hours Do you have pressing questions about your startup you would like to ask a developer and entrepreneur? I'd love to give you some free advice and hear about what you're doing! I can help you think through what it...
Combining the great American road trip with meeting a bunch of entrepreneurs and hacking code? Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that?! That was my reaction when talking recently with a friend and fellow startup coder Matt Makai. Matt...
Hands on learning for startups, in an unforgettable place The AgilityFeat team is hard at work on some exciting changes this summer and some exciting things coming up over the next year. One of those projects that we will be talking a lot...
The finer points of bribing, and why you don't need to worry about it Doing business in another country can be very exciting, but also comes with a set of challenges. What is culturally or even ethically acceptable in one country is not...
Our visual designer Daniel Phillips and developer Andrea Phillips put together a nice portfolio of some of the mobile projects they have worked on, and so I'll share a few snippets of that here. Download the full portfolio as a PDF here....
What inspired you to start your own company? A particular passion? A desire for independence? Necessity? The ReadWriteWeb blog has an interesting post on the "Accidental Entrepreneur", which I came across from seeing the Penninsula...
AgilityFeat is building a tool to help non profits raise money and to help you learn Agile Engineering practices! If you attended the ADP West conference this year in Las Vegas, then you may have already heard about what we're doing. In...
David Alfaro and I had a good conversation with Jon Tonti from Nearshore Americas earlier this week that led to a nice blog post about the benefits of using agile in nearshore projects. You can read the full post here:...
We have explained before why we think nearshore agile is a good idea, but why choose Costa Rica over other Latin American countries? They all have convenient time zones for collaboration with US companies, labor costs are lower than they...
Retrospectives are important at higher levels than just your individual projects. At AgilityFeat we also hold retrospectives within our company and across our projects regularly. This is so we can look for patterns across our most...
How to have a well run remote standup session with your team. Standups are a key part of the agile and scrum process. Each standup is a time for our team to sync up with each other and the customer. It is also an opportunity to let our...