I have good leadership and communication skills, but I realize that to create great software requires excellent technical abilities, good requirements and domain knowledge.

My colleagues thank me when I help...

We just completed an Agile project that overall took about 18 months. We had maybe a couple dozen bugs during that time (some of those were really changes in...

The more senior people draw out the more quiet folks by gently but firmly encouraging them to participate based on what they know to be their strengths. So in...

Quite frankly, in my experience with agile techniques, particularly SCRUM, the methodology negates most conflicts regardless of titles or roles.

Everyone has the same role: team member. That's it....

We review all of our code using a collaborative tool, which comes in handy if the author is in some other state or country (which is generally the case). ...

I think this quote from Dr. W. Edwards Deming sums things up nicely:

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody,...

I absolutely would not want to work in a company that uses a stack ranking system. Unfortunately, I do work for such a company.

I want my team members to...

The bottom line is that if a company does not take sufficient risk to maintain or increase their market share then ultimately they will spiral down into oblivion and be...

Tell me about it. I constantly struggle with management level people who criticize based on how...

TDD and CI are Agile concepts/terms/practices:

TDD = Test Driven Development

CI = Continuous Integration

They aren't silver bullets, but when done well, can really improve your...

I've been programming/developing/engineering code for 27 years. At the start of my career, I worked with a gentleman in our development group who was doing some pretty mundane programming...

Go right ahead GSquared. How about "j_e_o doesn't know what he's talking about 'cause he's probably drunk"? ...

This thread has been hijacked. Where are the authorities when you need them? 😀

By the way, when someone uses, :-D, they are making a light hearted jest and are...

LOL...no, it wasn't a veiled threat, just some nice manager trying to explain why I was meeting with so much resistance.

As it turns out, the project never saw a line...

I couldn't agree more. But you have to challenge the status...