Agile: It’s More Than User Stories

The primary tenant of agile is to deliver value to organizations, iteratively, using the most efficient techniques, just-in-time. Many agile teams, especially those who choose the Scrum approach, choose user stories as their primary technique/tool for solution...

Brainstorming: We Have Lots of Ideas, Now What?

In the world of business and technology, success stems from good ideas. Successful organizations rely on a variety of idea generation techniques to: Solve problems Identify options, needs and features Improve processes Resolve issues Create or modify products  ...

Time to Pause

Do you have time to think? Most of us operate on autopilot. We buzz from meeting to meeting while battling our maxed out inboxes, instant messages, text messages and to do lists. We scramble through each day just trying not to crash. We barely have time to catch our...

The Devil is in the (Non-Functional) Details

Some systems are a joy to use. Others create extreme frustration and waste valuable time. Why? What’s the difference? Well, let’s think about the characteristics of good and evil systems: The “angels” of systems are: intuitive, easy to use fast reliable, always up and...