XPlanner Tip: Multiple Backlogs

Have you worked on a project with multiple customers representing multiple customer roles? For example, there may be a product manager role, a customer support role, a system operator/administrator role, and so on. I’ve seen this happen several times. The stories might also be conceptually organized into new features and technical debt (including refactoring […]

Agile Development and “Tool” Acquisition

While doing some reading on the topic of search and rescue (SAR) I found the focus on agility and tool acquisition to be very interesting and very similar to what has worked for me in the software development domain. The following text is a paraphrase of several paragraphs from the book, “Fundamentals of Search and […]

Offshore Development on a Cruise Ship

It’s an interesting idea. A company called SeaCode is outfitting a cruise ship to house 600 software developers about 3 miles offshore in international waters. They claim this will create high-end software engineering jobs in the U.S. but reading their material suggests this would be very few jobs compared to the low-paid masses living on […]