20,000 steps away from the sea

Recently I travelled to England and Germany to speak at Agile Testing Days 2014. It was a wonderful conference and the trip gave me a chance to do a lot of walking to see a lot of sites. I was wearing my new Moto 360 which among many other things keeps tracks of how many…

Change the frequency

More correctly, what is the optimal frequency? When you first start bringing a team into Scrum, the sprint length is critical. A shorter interval gives you faster learning while a longer interval is less stressful on the team.  When you start an exercise program. It’s all about how many visits to the gym or how…

Rest

And rest… These words appear everywhere, if you take the time to look for them. There is a moment between the strum of a guitar string, between each set you do at the gym, and between each line of code you write. This is a rest. Now in music, the rhythm is impacted by the…