In this episode, our host Phil Japikse speaks with Steve Bohlen, a former building architect and current software architect on the differences between the two engineering disciplines. Join us as we discuss where the terminology originated in the software industry and how the same terms can mean very different things....

In the 11 years since the Agile Manifesto was created, the adoption of agile concepts has continued to grow. The number of agile user groups, conferences, and books is a strong indication that more and more people are at least exploring the idea, if not working to improve their adoption and execution. This ...

In this episode, I sit down with Microsoft MVP Lee Brandt to discuss the difficulties in communication and collaboration amongst project teams as well as with people outside of the project team. Lee offers some great ideas on why the problems arise and how to improve the communications gap. This episode was ...

In this episode we continue the discussion with Ted, Jessica, and Glenn while at the CodeMash conference in Sandusky, Ohio, and it’s all about transitioning to agile. How do you get organizational buy in? What are the agile anti-patterns that make agile projects fail? How does an individual get started ...

In this podcast episode I sit down with Ted Neward, Jessica Kerr, and Glenn Block at the CodeMash conference in Sandusky Ohio. The conversation starts with a discussion on Test Driven Development, then moves on to Behavior Driven Development and various other methods to shorten the feedback loop. Not only ...

Listen to Part 2 of our Agile Q&A Panel with my guests Steve Porter and Joel Semeniuk     Additional resources: TeamPulse Best Practices Analyzer Listen to Part 1 of the Agile Q&A Panel About the guests: Joel Semeniuk Joel Semeniuk is a founder of Imaginet Resources Corp., a Canadian ...

Listen to Part 1 of our Agile Q&A Panel with my guests Steve Porter and Joel Semeniuk     Additional resources: Register for the next Agile Q&A Panel TeamPulse Best Practices Analyzer About the guests: Joel Semeniuk Joel Semeniuk is a founder of Imaginet Resources Corp., a Canadian based Microsoft ...

Listen to Part 2 of ours discussion with Pete Brown and Rachel Appel on how to Know Thy Customer.     Download Podcast Additional resources: Know Thy Customer (blog by Joel Semeniuk) TeamPulse Ideas & Feedback Portal Did you miss the first part of the podcast? >> Know Thy Customer ...

Who are our customers? What are they looking for? These are some of the hardest questions to answer in the software industry. Join us in a talk with two senior Microsoft evangelists, Peter Brown and Rachel Appel, about how they connect with their customers in one of the largest developer ...

In this episode, I speak with Joel Semeniuk and Stephen Forte on how they got started down the path of agile. Joel’s focus on the people in the software development led to many process improvements that paralleled many of the other early adopted of agile. Stephen found his path to ...