Written by Arin Sime | Apr 8, 2011 | Agile
Last month the QANews newsletter by Sogeti was released, and I was pleased to have an article I wrote on Agile Database Testing published in it. I’ve reproduced the article below, and you can also see the original article here. Agile Database Testing Testing...
Written by Arin Sime | Apr 6, 2011 | Agile, Events
Yesterday I had the great pleasure of speaking to two undergrad business classes at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. The students are primarily accounting and finance majors, with a few engineering majors thrown in for good measure. I...
Written by Arin Sime | Mar 16, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
Tonight at the AgileCville user group meeting, we discussed Scrum in Schools. This was a roundtable discussion of group members, and it was very interesting. Paul Erb kicked off the discussion for us. Paul is an Agile Cville regular, as well as the business manager...
Written by Arin Sime | Feb 22, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
About a month ago I was working with a team planning another iteration for the project, when we had an interesting discussion about how to manage our burndown. On all of our previous sprints, our burndowns were based on hours. That is, for each day of the sprint,...
Written by Arin Sime | Feb 1, 2011 | Agile
I had coffee with a fellow software consultant friend recently where we traded war stories about recent IT projects. Jay told a tale familiar to many of us (Jay is not his real name, but the story is all too real). He and his team had just recently finished a project...
Written by Arin Sime | Jan 28, 2011 | Agile
I’m pleased to announce an online course that I have put together for how to lead and plan fixed price Agile projects and still be profitable. I first announced this in a webinar I held recently, and I’m excited to open it up to a wider audience now. You...
