I am trying to get a friend of mine to quit his job. No, I don’t want him to join the massive ranks of the unemployed. I want him to move to a job that appreciates his talents and efforts. My friend (let’s …

Over the past year I have been doing some side work building a web application for a startup. The project has been very interesting and the process has helped me stay in touch with my inner developer. It has also allowed me to practice agile …

One of the most common points of friction between project managers and developers is planning work. Most programmers hate creating work breakdown structures (WBS). You can’t blame them, accurately predicting steps and effort required to build undesigned software is impossible. Yes, you …

My friend and colleague Brian Kelly and I are starting an Agile Developer Book Club in New York. The first meeting will be on April 29th (location TBD) and we will start by reading one of my favorite books on software development: The Pragmatic …

I frequently hear the terms “Proof of Concept” (POC), “Prototype”, and “Pilot” used interchangeably. This is unfortunate because they mean different things and serve very different functions. In fact, I think that if you want to successfully implement technology, you should be doing all three. …