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AccuRev will be providing its amazing Scrum User Training which is also at an amazing price in Boston, NYC, and DC later this month. If you are considering getting Agile training, you

There are now three cities where you can get an amazing deal on AccuRev Certified Scrum User Training. This is a unique course that not only teaches Scrum, it also

I'll be bringing our Scrum User Training to Santa Clara on Dec 2nd. It's a full day of hands-on activities that will introduce you to Agile and Scrum. If you've been considering

It has been a while since I've blogged here. Why is that? Well,  I've been bloggingover on the AccuRev site, doing more and more speaking engagements, and twittering like mad. I'll

If you will be in the Dallas area on Sept 15th, come get a brief introduction to Kanban and see how it may be able to add a little extra flavor to

As I write this, 52 folks have already registered for Mary's talk and there are only 120 total spots available. Her talk is titled "The Leadership Team and the Software Crisis: A

At the beginning of the month I released the first version of "Do It Yourself Agile." The response was tremendous and I am very grateful to the many people that

Many of the techniques of Agile development combine together to provide more than the sum of their parts. One technique that definitely fits this description is the Planning Poker method

Planning Poker is a useful Agile estimation technique (see previous post "Introduction to Planning Poker"), but it is even more useful when used in conjunction with whole teams, user stories,

There are three particularly valuable things that can happen during a Planning Poker session. They may also happen during any flavor of estimation meeting, but seem to be more likely

All Phases of Software Development are Variations on a Theme It is easy to think of specification, estimation, planning, design, implementation, and customer feedback as completely separate and unrelated activities.

How we think about something can have a profound effect on how we do that thing. Thinking of the process of software development as a search algorithm rather than as