THE AGILITYFEAT BLOG
At AgilityFeat, we are more than just designers and coders. We are also thought leaders. Our team has spoken at conferences around the US, Europe, and Latin America. We were early leaders in applying agile methodologies to nearshore software development in Latin America. We shared these lessons in this blog through 2015. These days, we blog mainly about our other passion, WebRTC. Find us at https://webrtc.ventures/blog/.
#Startup Developer Office Hours in #Boston July 27th
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...
Coding Across America for #startups with @makaimc
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...
Coming soon … DareToBeLean workshop in Costa Rica
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...
Another reason to nearshore in Costa Rica
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...
AgilityFeat Mobile Portfolio
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 kind of startup are you?
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...
Wishlisting.org
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...
AgilityFeat quoted in Nearshore Americas post on Agility
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:...
Nearshore Agile: Why Choose Costa Rica?
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...
AgilityFeat Team Retrospective in Costa Rica
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...
A Successful Nearshore Agile Standup Session
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...
ATDD Kickstart coming to Washington DC in June!
June 4-5, 2012 Washington, DC DETAILS/REGISTRATION For information on other dates blog.agilityfeat.com/atdd-kickstart/ AgilityFeat is proud to be partnering with Lithespeed on our ATDD Kickstart classes, and so we're pleased to...
Dave Haeffner to speak on Selenium at #Agile2012
Congratulations to Dave Haeffner for having his Agile 2012 submission "Selenium Users Anonymous" accepted! Dave will be leading a "counseling" session for Selenium users at Agile 2012 in Dallas. The conference is from August 13 - 17...
ATDD Kickstart coming to Richmond!
ATDD with Cucumber! May 14-15, 2012Richmond, VA Length: 2 days Cost: $1495 US / person Early bird registration $1395 3 or more people - $1295 each AgilityFeat is proud to be bringing our Acceptance Test Driven Development training to...
Tips for traveling to meet our team in Costa Rica
Bienvenidos a Costa Rica! We are very pleased to work with our clients in the United States and to be able to share a little bit of Costa Rica with you in the process. When your team comes to visit us in Costa Rica, please keep these...
AgilityCast: Introduction to Cucumber
Today we held the first of many future "AgilityCasts", where we record a short presentation by one of our team members on a topic related to agile software development, nearshore agile development in Costa Rica, or anything that suits our...
Benefits to kicking off your Nearshore Agile project in Costa Rica
Last week we just finished up the kick off for a new project in the AgilityFeat Costa Rica offices. This is a fast growing area of business at AgilityFeat and one I am very pleased about, so I would like to take a little time to describe...
Coaching a client to drop Estimation
I've always had a love/hate relationship with estimation. I find the topic fascinating. Estimation is like a car wreck, it's hard not to slow down some and take a look, even if you know it's wrong and you are afraid of what you might...
Course Announcement: ATDD Kick-Start with Cucumber and Ruby
Dave Haeffner and I are proud to announce a new workshop on Acceptance Test Driven Development using Cucumber and Ruby that we are offering in 2012. The workshop will initially be taught as private courses to companies, so if you are...
Great agile event coming up on Feb 3rd at VGT in Ruckersville
I'm excited to be part of a great upcoming agile event in the Charlottesville area! VGT (Video Gaming Technologies) in Ruckersville is hosting an evening of agile in a few weeks in coordination with AgileCville and Impact Makers. There...
12 Lessons Learned as a Solo Agile Coach
It’s been over a year now since I started AgilityFeat, and what a great year it’s been. Being December, this is also a good time to get reflective as the year draws to a close. With that in mind, I’ve come up with a list of twelve...
Failure Pattern Poker at @AgileIowa
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...
Failure Bows and Brainstorming from #ACCUS
If you’re looking for a fun way to kick off discussions of difficult topics, then failure bows may work for you. In September I was at the Agile Coach Camp US (#ACCUS) in Columbus Ohio. Friday was “Games Day”, devoted to fun ways to...
Assorted 140 character thoughts from #ACCUS
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...
Don’t discard TDD in the cloud
Developing software for the cloud can make test-driven development more complicated, but not impossible. In this article that I wrote for TechWell.com and StickyMinds.com, I offer advice for continuing good development practices in the...