All posts by: Thomas Cagley

Collaboration Fails

Collaboration is not easy. If we start with the premise that collaboration is important, even critical, why does it often fail to emerge or wither on the vine? This is... Read More

SPaMCAST 626 – Custom Software Development, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, A Conversation With Jacob Glenn

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 626 features our interview with Jacob Glenn.  Jacob and I began talking about custom software development and then branched into entrepreneurship and leadership. Finding... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 21: Final Thoughts

We began our re-read of Tame your Work Flow by Steve Tendon and Daniel Doiron, on Saturday, May 23rd. The world has changed a lot as we worked our way... Read More

Collaboration

I recently interviewed several successful technical entrepreneurs. Most have created multiple successful organizations. They have shared several common threads. One of the most basic of those threads is the need... Read More

SPaMCAST 625 – Finding Great Developers, GitCommit Bounties, A Conversation With Drew Angell

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 625 features our interview with Drew Angell. Drew and I talk about web development, software development excellence, and how to find great developers. Being... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 20: Chapter 21 Patterns to Get Started and Epilogue

Today we tackle the whole of Part 7 which is Chapter 21 and the Epilogue.  Next week we will complete our re-read of Tame Your Work Flow with concluding remarks. ... Read More

Finance Transformation: Focus On Financial Guidance

Guest Post by Diane Davidson The future of Finance was already changing from your typical accounting, auditing, and control functions, and that was before the pandemic hit in March.  The... Read More

SPaMCAST 624 – Grateful and Servant Leadership Combined, Our Stories Aren’t Getting Done!, Essays and Conversations

Software Process and Measurement Cast 624 is structured a little differently. We begin with the conclusion of a three-column arc on grateful leadership from Susan Parente’s Not A Scrumdamentalist Column.... Read More

Re-read Saturday, Tame you Work Flow Week 19: Chapter 20—Operational Governance in PEST Environments

A few logistical comments before we dive into chapter 20.  After this week we have three weeks left in this re-read including our customary debrief. When we decided on Tame... Read More

Our Stories Aren’t Getting Done: Hitting Roadblocks You Should Have Expected

Getting the work you commit to getting done in an iteration or sprint is not constrained to a conversation about Scrum or Scrumban. Timeboxing is common in almost all work... Read More