Look Forward Blog

Vivo en la ciudad de San Diego y tenemos un estimado de 1.4 millones de personas que viven dentro de los límites de la ciudad. Podría usted imaginar a alguien pidiendo al Alcalde, o el Ayuntamiento, “¿Necesitamos realmente tantos bomberos a tiempo completo?” Una... Read More

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a fundamental programming skill in short supply today.  TDD is a powerful design technique that improves the quality and reliability of software as unit tests are automated and run more frequently.  One of the key concepts behind TDD is that the... Read More

Alistair Cockburn has been sharing this distillation of Scrum in a recent talk called “Returning to the Heart of Agile”.  I really like the simplicity of this description since it recalls that Scrum is a simple framework. Deliver (or demo) each Sprint, with a... Read More

So how does a pivot actually work?  In my last post, I talked about the ten type of pivots from the world of Lean Startup.  Let me illustrate how pivots work by using CSP Fast Pass, my latest effort to help people and businesses be more successful applying Scrum and Agile, as a... Read More

Pivote es una de esas palabras que algunas personas del ámbito ágil les gusta lanzar a su alrededor para parecer “cool”, pero a menudo la utilizan incorrectamente. He escuhado muchas conversaciones donde se usa la palabra “pivote”, que tienden a significar... Read More

Pivot is one of those words that some Agile people like to throw around to sound hip and cool, but often use incorrectly.  I have observed in many conversations where people use the word “pivot”, they tend to mean any type of course correction in product strategy... Read More

At Agile Portugal, I heard Emily Bache (@emilybache) give an inspiring keynote address on the importance of coding dojos to advance the art of programmers and testers.  Emily, much like myself, is a strong proponent of test-driven development (TDD), but recognizes that while TDD... Read More

En Agile Portugal, oí a Emily Bache (@emilybache) dar un discurso inspirador sobre la importancia de los coding dojos para avanzar en el arte de los programadores y testeadores. Emily, al igual que yo, es una fuerte defensora del desarrollo guiado en pruebas (TDD – Test... Read More

June 7th, 2016 Porto, Portugal – last week, Carlton Nettleton took time to share the journey of CSP Fast Pass with the attendees at Agile Portugal 2016, a two-day regional conference hosted by the Agile community in Portugal.  This year, Carlton was an invited speaker to... Read More