All posts by: bcagley

Software Process and Measurement Cast Panel Discussion 2024, SPaMCAST 844

Another year has flown by, 2025 is near.  The SPaMCAST 844 features our year-end panel discussion. This year  Jeremy Willets, Jeremy Berriault, Susan Parente, Jon M Quigley and I discuss... Read More

Revisiting Paul Gibbons and Impact, SPaMCAST 840

The Software Process and Measurement Cast Crew are off for an adventure. We will be back on December 8th with new content. In the interim, we share four gems from... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Actionable Agile Volume II, Week 10, Chapters 9 -10,  VoP, VoC, Predictability, Monte Carlo and More

The crew at the Software Process and Measurement Blog and Podcast is off on a bit of an adventure. We are sharing the conclusion of Made to Stick to provide... Read More

Revisiting Jodie Kane and Product Owners In Retrospectives. SPaMCAST 839

The Software Process and Measurement Cast Crew are off for an adventure. We will be back on December 8th with new content. In the interim, we share four gems from... Read More

Revisiting Software Measurement with Mauricio Aguiar and Christine Green December 2021, SPaMCAST 838

The Software Process and Measurement Cast Crew are off for an adventure. We will be back on December 8th with new content. In the interim, we share four gems from... Read More

Work Intake Halloween, A Second Opinion, Essays and Conversations with Jeremy Berriault, SPaMCAST 836

SPaMCAST 836 celebrates Halloween. Over the years instead of just one night, people decorate their houses and celebrate for at least a month – we love a party. In celebration... Read More

How To Be A Stoic Re-read, Chapter 6 – God or Atoms, Week 7

Chapter 6 of How To Be A Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci, titled God or Atoms?, discusses the Stoic view of God. As I have discussed this chapter with friends it... Read More

How To Be A Stoic Re-read, Chapter 5 – Playing Ball With Socrates, Week 6

Chapter 5 is titled, Playing Ball With Socrates. The author uses a sports analogy in the chapter to illustrate why we can be indifferent towards something and that something is... Read More

How To Be A Stoic Re-read, Chapter 3, Some Things Are In Our Power, Others Are Not, Week 4

Chapter 3 of How To Be A Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci begins to get into the nuts and bolts of Stoicism.  Because Epictetus is the author’s guide the opening quote... Read More

Cheating Chaos, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Re-read Chapter 9, Wk 10

Three main ideas struck me during this read of Chapter 9 of Flow. Chapter 9 is titled: Cheating Chaos. The chaos we are working to cheat is the random energy... Read More