Software Process and Measurement Podcast

SPaMCAST 680 – State of Software Measurement, Legacies, A Conversation with Mauricio Aguiar and Christine Green

This week Mauricio Aguiar and Christine Green join me to discuss the state and future of Software Measurement. Mauricio, Christine, and I are all recent Past Presidents of the International... Read More

SPaMCAST 679 – Team Leads In Agile, Descoping, Conversations and Essays

As we begin counting down to the end of the year, I would like to consider the team lead’s role. It is a nearly ubiquitous role in organizations, but is... Read More

SPaMCAST 678 – Prioritization Outside Span Of Control, Product Owners and User Stories, Conversations and Essays

This week we are taking a quick journey into a discussion of prioritization outside of a team or an organization’s span of control. It is easy to confuse influence and... Read More

SPaMCAST 677 – Service Level Objectives, SLOs, A conversation with Kit Merker

Today we will speak to Kit Merker, COO of Nobl9 about Service Level Objectives (SLO). Kit provides down-to-earth advice for adopting and using SLOs to benefit teams AND organizations.  Kit’s... Read More

SPaMCAST 676 – Agile and Executives and scaling Agile Up, A conversation with Vincent Henderson

Today we feature our interview with Vincent Hendersen. We talked about scaling agility up — not the same as scaling agile. Mr. Hendersen and I discussed thinking about agile as... Read More

SPaMCAST 675 – What is a Priority, Bad Leadership, Conversations and Essays

This week we continue the priority theme with an essay titled, “What is a Priority?” I wish it was a simple question. Since the whole idea of priority is premised... Read More