Early this year, my organization went through custom training from Rally on agile development (specifically, scrum). I grew up doing waterfalls in traditional SDLC methodologies. I can’t say I was resistant to the timeboxed approach, but I was skeptical. More often than not, the waterfalls I worked on followed this type of [...]

Every project I’ve worked on starts the same… we define the ask, determine the cost and establish the timebox. No matter the process we follow, there is always a timebox, either the process dictates it (scrum) or the customer does when they don’t like our estimates. Regardless, many people I’ve encountered plan for [...]

Before I became a manager, I was really annoyed with 1:1′s. They were just another status meeting where my manager would give me more detailed “feedback” on how to do my job, manage my projects, interact with people… Sometimes, I would receive good advice, but it was really rare. Mostly, it was just an opportunity [...]