Written by Arin Sime | Aug 12, 2011 | Agile, Events
Are you looking for an inexpensive way to learn agile methods? Improve your agile engineering practices? Or learn about how agile methods are being employed in government? AgileDC is the place for you! I’m very pleased to be speaking on Agile Estimation...
Written by Arin Sime | Aug 11, 2011 | Agile
Why are some developers so afraid of commitment? I’m not talking about relationships, but something equally as important. Committing your code to a repository before it goes stale or you lose the changes. I’ve witnessed a couple of different scenarios this...
Written by Arin Sime | 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...
Written by Arin Sime | Jul 7, 2011 | Agile
What’s the deal with story points and agile estimation techniques, and why can’t we just improve our estimates over time? That’s part of the question that a friend of mine asked recently, and I’m going to respond to it in this blog post. My...
Written by Arin Sime | Jul 6, 2011 | Agile, Events
The Innovate Virginia conference will be held in Richmond, Virginia, on Friday September 16th, and I am proud to be one of the speakers there. It will be an excellent one-day conference bringing together many excellent speakers in a cost effective and local setting...