All posts by: Thomas Cagley

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 9, Chapter 9: Thinking In Sprints

Chapter 9 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller, tackles the sprint. To paraphrase the Beach Boys Everybody’s gone sprintin’Sprinting’ Scrum-i-a... Read More

SPaMCAST 645 – Getting A Handle on Data Security, A Conversation with Paul Katzoff

The headlines of 3 and 4 April 2021 are stark – the data of 533 million Facebook users available on the web (change your password now).  You have 533 MILLION... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 8 – Chapter 8: Management

Chapter 8 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems, by Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller tackles management. The gap between labor and management is an age-old problem.... Read More

Teams: Organizational Attributes

Teams don’t live in a vacuum. Every team is an intersection of boundaries of all sorts of organizations. Organizations facilitate teams to a greater or lesser extent. In the workplace,... Read More

Teams: Behavioral Attributes

The second category of attributes that are important for teams to be effective is behavioral attributes. These attributes describe how individuals and teams as a whole act. While the first... Read More

SPaMCAST 644 – Teams Are Important, Static and Dynamic Testing, Essays and Discussions

In the SPaMCAST 644, we talk teams. At the core of agile is the belief that the team is the fundamental building block of work. Because they are so important,... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Fixing Your Scrum, Week 7: Chapter 7: Embracing The Scrum Master Role

In SPaMCAST 642 Vasco Duarte made the startling statement that a Scrum Master will be your next CEO. Chapter 7 in Fixing Your Scrum, Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems,... Read More

Teams: Skills Attributes

Most outcomes in software development and information technology are reflections of team activities. Whether coding a new function or provisioning a server people work together to achieve a goal. The... Read More

Teams: The Heart And Soul Of Work

Teams are the most common grouping of people in agile. I do not think I have been to conferences, in-person or virtual, without being told how important teams are to... Read More

SPaMCAST 643 – Software Craftsmanship, An Interview With Caleb Wood, CEO RoleModel Software

This week Caleb Woods, CEO and Senior Software Craftsman at RoleModel Software joins the podcast. Caleb and I talk about the role of craftsmanship in developing and maintaining software (or... Read More