I read an article about a year ago in ACM Magazine that I’d like to share with you. It explains how the General Accounting Office (GAO) of the U.S. federal government has asked government IT departments to go Agile. First of all, who is more conservative than the federal...

I am widely known as the prince of oversimplifications, but here goes anyway… I strongly believe there are two major reasons why we should do projects iteratively and incrementally, i.e. in an Agile fashion. The first reason is that “businesspeople don’t know what they want until they see it.” It is all...

Click here to see the photos from my presentation “The Basics of Agile” at Progressive Medical in Westerville, Ohio last Thursday.