Today we noticed that a feature we released yesterday created a really nasty side effect. While experimenting with a new content structure for AUDI, which was the only one we wanted the search engine bots to crawl, we accidentally invited the bots to crawl all content for all brands. As the content of all other … Continue reading Critical Bugs: Blame Or Chance?

Given proper coaching, teams must be empowered to decide and execute decisions on their own. This means that a team must have the proper make-up including designers and architects, application and database developers. Once a team commits to the story backlog, they must work together to ensure that all stories are delivered by the end … Continue reading Kicking The Last of the Departmental Blues

From the dawn of time, humans have always worked together as a team to overcome hardship and danger, and make the community stronger. Specialization naturally grouped people together to form hunting parties or food gatherers and later on governing councils and religious groups. This grouping together of dedicated, like-minded people forms the core of our … Continue reading Successful Teams Are Small And Dedicated

The bigger a ship, the longer it takes to turn around. This old adage certainly applies to today's businesses, and if you're fighting to spin the steering wheel of a large vessel (by trying to change the work habits of hundreds of employees), you're in for a long battle. But don't let yourself get discouraged, … Continue reading Don’t get Discouraged – Get Agile