Matt Blodgett

One of the greatest services that software engineers provide is that we help people understand their own thought processes. We're transc...

I've written before on this blog about the different personality traits of software engineers, and how different traits balance each ot...

The Product Owner has the final say in backlog prioritization. But who writes the backlog? Is it always the product owner? My experience ...

I feel like every job I've ever had in software there has been some old legacy system hanging around that everyone denigrated and perenn...

There are tensions in Scrum anywhere you have intra-sprint cycles that must resolve by the end of the sprint. In my last post I wrote about ...

After working for many years in the software industry, almost always using a methodology resembling Scrum, there are certain tensions that I...

There's a Kafkaesque situation that develops in companies that cannot retain senior employees. A team feels a sense of urgency about shi...