agile

What did you do at work today? How about last week? I spent a couple of days in quarterly business reviews, and wrapped up yearly planning activities for AWS Data Exchange and A...

Update: I wrote a longer article, “What “S’Up”? Using Triads to Develop Tribal Leadership” on the Artsy Medium blog about this.

I gave a talk last week at AppNexus on building and scaling a test-driven culture.

I had a short, but lively debate over code reviews with @skamille at New York’s QCon 2012. That same day she wrote an interesting blog post on code reviews. She argues that “cod...

Last night I gave a talk on pressing the big scary red reset button at the NY CTO School. The first talk before me was by @malcolmcasey, CTO of Skillshare, another awesome NYC s...

I really enjoy the conversation with software architects on how to make technology choices. I polled the members of the New York CTO club on the topic and got amazing war storie...

I’ll be presenting at Internet Week NY on Monday, June 6th, 2pm.

My class sold out tonight with over 40 people attending. If you were there, thank you so much! It’s really rewarding to have an engaged audience where nobody even moved when Bra...

I’m teaching a class at General Assembly on April 20th.

Thanks to everyone for attending my “Breaking the Software Death Cycle with DDD” presentation last night at the DDD meet-up at Microsoft. It looks like the topic turned out to b...

Here’s a disruptive idea for the corporate world: let’s get rid of the traditional “open headcount”.

I feel like I live in this presentation by Mary Poppendieck: The Tyranny of the Plan.

In this very good presentation about domain driven design (we do that, but more on that in a later post), Dan North (Thoughtworks) mentions Bug Driven Design. I love this conce...