Look Forward Blog

  Here are some common mistakes people make when trying to make their organization more Agile from Rick Brenner and Nancy Van Schooenderwoert.  My comments are in italics. Underestimate the politics of the organization.  Avoid this trap at your peril.  As Ken Schwaber likes to... Read More

Stopped by to listen to Larry Constantine today to hear what he is thinking about how to best design applications.  These are a number of the key points I picked up from his talk: Prioritize design efforts around tasks which have the most frequency and greatest importance.... Read More

One of the sessions I visited today was about what are the correct measurements to determine if your SOA initiative was successful.  One of the most interesting statistic from the speaker was this continuum of cyclometric complexity (CC): CC < 10: "simple" code 10 > CC <... Read More

…you cannot have collaboration. My first stop at the SD Best Practices 2008 was a tutorial called “Collaboration Works!” by Ellen Gottesdiener.  I am familiar with many collaboration techniques, but I was looking for some additional tools and tricks (which I will include as... Read More

I will be heading for a great conference for the next few days, Oct 27th to Oct 30th, and will write up some short posts on what I saw and heard that was interesting and\or new.  I found this conference focuses less on technologies and more on techniques that work.  There will be... Read More

…you are not doing Scrum.  Recently, I had given a number of Scrum Lead classes to people interested in change.  Invariably when you get a bunch of people together who are dealing with the same organizational obstacles, they want to know why the organization has had so much... Read More

…where I have been, I just wanted to let all of you know I have been teaching.  One of my responsibilities is to train people on how to use Scrum.  During the past two weeks I have trained about 14 people on how to be an effective and useful Scrum Leads, our equivalent of a... Read More

A coworker of mine shared with me a great tool to help people know when it is time to come back from breaks during a training session – ZoomIt.  It is designed to allow you to zoom in on parts of your screen during a presentation and annotate the screen, but I find the... Read More

Just wanted to take note that Ted & I got married in a small, intimate ceremony downtown.  It was a beautiful, clear day and we are heading off to Palm Springs for a long weekend.  I am very happy today. Read More