Written by Ford | Dec 4, 2012 | Agile, Events, Lean Startup, Startups
Yesterday, I went to The Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco. It was a full day of incredible presentations, fireside chats (without the fires), sharing of lessons learned and of course networking. This was my first Lean Startup conference and I was blown away by...
Written by Arin Sime | Oct 30, 2012 | Agile, Nearshore Agile, Startups
Ford Englander is AgilityFeat’s new VP for Business Development, and a long time mentor and friend to me. I’m thrilled to have him join the US ranks of AgilityFeat because Ford brings in a wealth of experience that is going to help us grow and serve our...
Written by Arin Sime | Oct 15, 2012 | Agile, AgilityCasts, Events, Startups
I’m very pleased to say that I will be presenting an Ignite talk at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco in December. I will talk about some anti-patterns that I see in software development for startups. In short, my advice is to “Just Deploy...
Written by Arin Sime | Oct 4, 2012 | Agile, Nearshore Agile
CIO magazine posted an article this week entitled “7 Tips to Offshore Agile Development”, and they got it mostly right, but I would like to add 4 more tips that I think are critical to effective agile outsourcing. Stephanie Overby wrote these 7 tips: Be...
Written by Arin Sime | Oct 2, 2012 | Agile, AgilityCasts, Projects
Time for a demo of wishlisting.org! In this post I will give you a demo of the current features, and then we will step through a couple of the automated tests that we have in place for the site. Using wishlisting.org to teach agile… First let me give you some...
Written by Arin Sime | Sep 28, 2012 | Agile, Startups
My wife and I love the TV show “The Big Bang Theory.” And given the name of the show, this clip is particularly funny to me because software betas are discussed in the context of a relationship. Leonard and Penny are flirting with the idea of dating again,...
