1	Agile is indeed crossing the chasm It came up again several times in the XP2006 conference that people are seeing Agile crossing the chasm. And I agree. Kind of. Agile is gaining mass and it certainly looks to me like Agile is indeed crossing the chasm if it hasn't already. Actually...	Jun 26, 2006
2	Discipline: The Killer Trait Something about Skip Angel's blog post about business killers and killer leaders got me thinking about how different people exhibit different behavior in stress situations, even though they have just agreed about the "ideal" behavior outside of the si...	Jun 8, 2006
3	On Scrum and the curse of the three questions Simon Baker's latest blog entry reminded me of something I've been thinking during some of my consulting gigs with organizations that are adopting Scrum but are relatively new to it. To get directly to the point, I've got beef with the part of Simon...	May 7, 2006
4	Quick and dirty without the dirty Jeffrey Phillips talks about him belonging to the prototype-oriented quick and dirty camp rather than the flesh-it-all-out-as-...	Apr 29, 2006
5	Gummi what? Yes, adopting agile methods in certain environments can be harder than you'd hope. You're surrounded by people who don't really understand what you're doing and why, even though you've tried to explain them more than once. Perhaps the most dangerous m...	Apr 29, 2006
6	On reckless test automation Jonathan Kohl blogs about the dangers of reckless test automation. He's right on the money and I strongly recommend reading what he has to say. One thing I'd like to highlight is that the source of the problem is not "100% test automation" itself bu...	Apr 8, 2006
7	Medical proof that agile methods kick ass A study by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and Montreal's McGill University has found out that "smarter brains are more agile, not bigger". There. Scientific, medical proof that you become smarter if you use agile methods. And here's ...	Apr 7, 2006
8	VTT's research gets press for agile methods in Finland Lask week, I saw an article in Tietoviikko on agile methods, including among other positive notions the following quote (my translation) in the context of VTT's research and the adoption of their Mobile-D methodology (an agile method created at the VT...	Apr 2, 2006
9	On retrospectives I recently did a relatively improptu retrospective for a client team I was visiting and something interesting turned up, as usual. The team had been running iteration retrospectives for several months and they had consistently identified the same issu...	Feb 13, 2006