Chris Spagnuolo’s EdgeHopper

Something our team has wrestled with over the course of our agile adoption is how architecture and framework development fit into our Scrum process.  We strive to deliver an increment of functionality to our client at the conclusion of each sprint.  However, in many of our early sprints, we have to do architecture and framework development.  [...]

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Over the past two months, our development team has gone through a lot of changes…from joining a new company and setting up a new work environment to learning new technologies to serve our new clients.  In general, we were a desktop-based shop that focused on the ESRI desktop stack.  However, many of our new clients [...]

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I was recently reading a short story by Jorge Luis Borges called “Funes the Memorius“. It’s a story about a man with the strange inability to forget.  He remembers every detail in his life, but he can’t distinguish between the trivial and the important.  He can’t prioritize and he can’t generalize. This made me think [...]

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I was giving some thought to how to close out agile projects today and realized that because agile projects are managed in an iterative manner, closing a project should be a simple affair with no surprises. During the lifespan of the project, agile teams should be conducting product review sessions at the end of every [...]

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