It’s not always about technology
At Asynchrony, we like to give back. We like to support causes and support each other. Danny Shoemaker, a member of our Business Development team, is on a mission to climb Mount Kilimanjaro this summer...
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Faster Cucumber Tests
Let’s face it you can never have enough money and your tests never run fast enough. I can’t help you with your money, but if you follow the steps in this post I can help you speed up your Cucumber...
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Pair Programmers
Through my various experiences as a Developer, Technical Lead, Test Driven Development Mentor and Agile Coach, I have paired with more than 100 different Developers over the course of 10 years. As you...
View ArticleThe Agile Architect: 5 Radio Ads and Announcements We’ll Never Hear
My new Agile Architect article, “Agile Humor: 5 Radio Ads and Announcements We’ll Never Hear” is online at ADT Magazine at http://adtmag.com/articles/2012/07/24/agile-humor.aspx You can read all of my...
View ArticleAsynchronites discuss “This Agile Life”
Several employees from Asynchrony, organized by John Sextro, have started recording a podcast on what it’s been like for developers, architects, and managers to be Agile in a world that doesn’t always...
View ArticleLean Six Cobra Kai
“This Agile Life” podcast just published episode 3, titled “Lead Six Cobra Kai”. The hosts for this episode were our own, Amos King, Andrew Radford, and John Sextro. Rocking the audio, as always, is...
View ArticleAn Agile Response to an Urgent Business Shift
by Myles Bogner, Ph.D. and Steve Kanter We had a small Agile software development team in one location. Within this environment, we operated with the following tools: A Kanban board drawn on a...
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I’d Rather Be Coding: Gathering Metrics
For a long time, I’ve been wanting to write a series of posts about those little activities that are a critical part of Agile and Lean, but somehow seem to slip by the wayside even on the most...
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Game Night!
I’ve been thinking about having a company game night for quite a while, and I decided to just jump out there, even at the risk of looking silly. I sent a message out to the company with what I was...
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Company meetings don’t have to be “Bloody Stupid”
On Monday, February 18, Asynchrony held our company meeting. As well as being our first company meeting in the new office, we were able for the first time to bring in guest speakers. We chose two...
View ArticleWomen & Engineering
I went to my first Women & Engineering panel recently and wasn’t quite what I thought it would be. To be honest, I don’t know quite what I was expecting. Everyone was open and supportive, even the...
View ArticleSix Strategies to Kill Creatively Without Dying in the Process
Fourworlds Aggregated Timeline on Dipity. This Dipity timeline aggregates the last five years of creative output from all my online repositories. They add up to dozens of songs and comics, hundreds...
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Do These Stairs Feel Right To You?
The mobile world is growing fast. In such an ecosystem there seems to be a never ending stream of new devices and platforms to support. Each platform has its own look and feel, its own SDK, its own...
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I’d Rather Be Coding: Writing Things Down
For a long time, I’ve been wanting to write a series of posts about those little activities that are a critical part of Agile and Lean, but somehow seem to slip by the wayside even on the most...
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Looks like I’m speaking at SQE East in Boston, November 12th, 2013!
My good friend Mitch Lacey had to take a step back from a speaking engagement, and he asked me to cover for him to give a half day tutorial on Getting Started With Agile: An Experiential Workshop at...
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“You Get What You Measure” versus “What You Measure, You Can Manage”– The...
(I just reinstalled Windows Live Writer and reconnected it to my blog, and it pulled down some drafts I wrote years ago. So, I have no idea when I actually wrote this, what the context was that was in...
View ArticleAgile and Lean/Kanban – Natural Allies
I gave a talk in St. Louis yesterday about how to combine Agile and Lean/Kanban in a team to increase the effectiveness of the execution portion of a team’s processes. These are the notes from that...
View ArticleImproving the TDD mindset
The best software is that which never ends, and in order to write software that never ends, you must keep the programmers happy to continue adding to an ever growing language. Test driven development...
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Xiki: A Gem Encountered At Strange Loop
Over the last several years, I’ve been fortunate to attend one to two information technology conferences each year. Each conference, whether they be focused on enterprise architecture, IT management,...
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Re-energizing a Standup Meeting with Kanban
Problem: Standup meetings are more like status meetings than a collaboration meeting for the team. Symptoms: The whole standup meeting is run by the Scrum Master, with no one doing or saying anything...
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