NYC Trip – And Periscope

February 1, 2016 / Matt Heusser / Conference, Conferences, Creative Chaos, Video / No Comments

I’m headed to New York this week, for a client visit and also to attend NYC Testers, which seems to be suddenly taking advantage of the lots-of-tech-in-a-small-area that is New […]

Save Our Scrum

October 30, 2014 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Creative Chaos, Presentations, Process, Skill Building, Video / No Comments

Ken Schwaber, a co-creator of scrum, says that roughly 25% of teams trying the method realize the gains they had hope. More teams call themselves “Scrumbut”, “Scrumerfall”, or “Scrumish” than […]

The Nine Forgettings

April 7, 2008 / Matt Heusser / Process, Software Engineering Classics, Testing, Video / No Comments

“If you measure the wrong thing, and you reward the wrong thing, don’t be surprised if you get the wrong thing.” — Lee Copeland Lee’s talk is about 34 minutes […]

Canary in a Coal Mine

December 6, 2006 / Matt Heusser / Agile, Process, Video / 1 Comment

There is an interesting talk in Info.com by Ken Schwaber. Ken is a co-author of the agile manifesto and co-inventor of Scrum. If you don’t want to listen for an […]