RodeoCat

Techie, cyclist, nerd

A Lesson in Teamwork and Sustainability

Scrum, MVP, and the Race to Delivery

Why turning Scrum into command-and-control is a mistake, and how teams can truly succeed.

Posted by Andy on Friday, June 2, 2023

Leadership vs. Technology – Why Choose?

Embracing the path in between

Why do we still believe leadership and technology are mutually exclusive?

Posted by Andy on Sunday, March 5, 2023

How much time should you Scrum Master ?

This has become a bit of a hot topic for me recently ..... it's an interesting question. We don't typically ask, how much time should a developer be a developer? Or a manager a manager?

Posted by Andy on Sunday, May 3, 2020

Project Managers in Agile

Is there a role for the project manager in Agile? Is so what is it? Or is the role defunct and everyone should be a Scrum Master?

Posted by Andy on Friday, April 17, 2020

Five Software Development Best Practices

"You're simply the best, better than all the rest" ... Tina Turner.

Posted by Andy on Friday, February 14, 2020

Data and Systems Integration

How is the changing architectural landscape shaping how we should look at data and systems integration? How we shape the connectivity between legacy systems and newer applications and devices, where data can securely flow across the business and boundaries and be reused to speed up development time is becoming more and more prevalent.

Posted by Andy on Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Tech debt anyone?

What is tech debt? Why is it important? And should you even care?

Posted by Andy on Friday, September 20, 2019

What is a data lake?

Let's start at the beginning … "A data lake is usually a single store of all enterprise data including raw copies of source system data and transformed data used for tasks such as reporting, visualization, analytics and machine learning."

Posted by Andy on Tuesday, August 13, 2019

User stories: Who, when and how much

Who can add users stories? Who's responsible for ensuring user stories are ready? When do we work on user stories? How much time should be spent, and by whom? How much information is needed in a user story?

Posted by Andy on Thursday, July 25, 2019

So what is architecture …

"If all you're interested in is cranking out code to hit release 1 then you probably don't need to think about architecture"

Posted by Andy on Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Tech. Experimentation. Cycling. Rinse. Repeat.

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