The rise of Scrum has really given the ideals of agile development a name. But I think with the greater acceptance of Scrum there has been the need to box in exactly what agile development is.
Before Scrum I believed that agile development meant two developers sit in the same cube, debate programming techniques and implementations [...]
Over the last couple of months I’ve been receiving IM spam from random AOL IM accounts all ending in “coho”. The messages have been seemingly gibberish. Getting tired of the spam, I started responding to the messages out of frustration. I just wanted to curse at it. Then one day I had this conversation:
12:28:59 PM [...]
When I made the switch to consulting a year ago I did so to emerse myself in a faster paced environment. I enjoy new and exciting challenges frequently. I thought most of my challenges were going to be technical. But I’ve discovered a good part of my job is channeling and focusing the client’s desires.
I’ve [...]