Written by Arin Sime | Dec 15, 2010 | Agile
If you are a consultant, even on an Agile team, you probably have to track your hours. I used to hate tracking my hours – and I’ve seen first hand how it can demoralize people. I once worked at a company where they decided to build an internal tracking...
Written by Arin Sime | Dec 9, 2010 | Agile, Events
Over the last year or so, I’ve been considering all the various lessons that I’ve learned throughout my IT career, and in particular during the last few years as I’ve really embraced Agile methodologies. I realized that there is a definite...
Written by Arin Sime | Dec 7, 2010 | Agile
You may have heard it said that the best Agile teams are cross-functional in nature. That means that each person on the team is capable of working in multiple functional silos (database, service layer, presentation layer, testing, etc). A cross functional team is well...
Written by Arin Sime | Nov 21, 2010 | Agile
If I could promise you returns of 6:1 on a project in a single year, would you take it? That is a pretty impressive return for a project, and most businesses would be happy to run a project that will yield that sort of return. Essentially, this is the type of benefit...
