Tom Cagley & Associates help organizations unlock the effectiveness of software development and maintenance teams by focusing on people, agility, and feedback.
We deliver the training, guidance, and coaching you need to make the transformation of your organization and team successful. We help you unlock the potential to improve cycle time, productivity, quality, morale, and customer satisfaction and develop the tools to prove it.
The Software Process and Measurement Cast Crew is on vacation. Until then, we are revisiting some fabulous panel discussions we have had during the last 19 years. We will be... Read More
This week, we revisit a re-edited version of the re-read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. Approximately 33 years ago, I was in the middle... Read More
The SPaMCAST 860 features a conversation with Paul Gibbons. We discussed his new book, Adopting AI: The People-first Approach, which he co-authored with James Healy. This is not our first... Read More
Today, I will capture a few thoughts from our re-read of Development As Freedom. When this book was recommended, I viewed it as a stretch. Developmental economics is not a... Read More
SPaMCAST 859 features a panel discussion on the role of empathy in getting work done in teams and organizations. This is not a black or white issue; the panel suggests... Read More
This is the last chapter in Development as Freedom. Next week, we will conclude the re-read with a few thoughts and chart a course for the next book. Thoughts? As... Read More
SPaMCAST 858 features a tale of work intake woe set in the Innovatech world that David Herron and I created. In this world, we use a bit of fiction to... Read More
This chapter of Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen explores the “intellectual edifice of human rights.” The concept of human rights is often trotted out almost like a totem in... Read More
SPaMCAST 857 features our interview with Andy Hilliard, CEO of Accelerance and author of Synergea. In this episode, we discuss the future of software development and how global teams fit... Read More
Sen begins Chapter 9 of Development as Freedom with the sentence: “The contemporary age is not short of terrible and nasty happenings, but the persistence of extensive hunger in a... Read More
