by arin | Sep 19, 2012 | Events, Startups, User Group Reports
Does your startup have a mobile application component? You’re certainly not alone, and that app should be more than just a mobile-aware website. That’s one thing that I heard repeated at the #MoDevTablet conference last Friday just outside Washington DC....
by arin | Aug 24, 2012 | Startups, User Group Reports
Last night I attended an impromptu meeting of the #LeanDC meetup. I say impromptu because it’s my understanding they pulled the meeting together in just a few days because Eric Ries, author of the Lean Startup, was in DC this week and so it was an opportunity...
by arin | Dec 5, 2011 | Agile, Events, User Group Reports
Would competition in a game help create engagement and conversation, or stifle the conversation in favor of “one-ups man ship”? That was one of the questions that came up when I led a session of Agile Failure Pattern Poker last month at the Agile Iowa meeting. I’ve...
by arin | Oct 7, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
I tend to write blog posts that are too long. Which is why sometimes I don’t blog as often as I should. But I really want to share everything with you that I learned at Agile Coach Camp US (#ACCUS) in Columbus Ohio last week. So instead of a long blog post that I...
by arin | Aug 15, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
What is the ideal contract model to use with sub-contractors, and is it any different than you would use with a lead contractor? I’m curious myself, and so I’ll just post a couple of quick thoughts and I encourage you to share your thoughts with me. In...
by arin | Jul 11, 2011 | Agile, User Group Reports
How do Lean principles complement and reinforce the roles in a Scrum project? That was one question on my mind as I drove up to the Agile Leadership Network DC meeting, held in Tysons Corner. People sometimes discuss Scrum, XP, Kanban, and Lean as competing agile...
