Written by Arin Sime | Dec 17, 2012 | Agile
AgilityFeat is hiring an agile engineering coach! Well, sort of. You see … here’s the deal. AgilityFeat does two things: (1) custom software development in Costa Rica, and (2) agile process and engineering coaching and training for companies around the US. Do you also...
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...
