I have been involved in a lot software projects in my professional life. And no matter the organization there has always been two constants: pressure from “the business” to increase the scope, and some sort of deadline (tradeshow, quarterly goal, etc.) that “management” won’t bend on. Everyone knows you can’t have your cake and eat it too though and I’ll show you why, with what I humbly, call “Ellis’ Law of Software Projects”. Read more

In the software development world there are two main camps for the process of how software should be built: waterfall and agile (usually a form of Scrum). Agile is an iterative incremental process and waterfall is the classical sequential process. This sequential approach is full of inventory, and inventory = waste. As someone who has made software both ways I will show you why I prefer Scrum.

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