Agile and Scrum

Building Trust Remotely

Web Worker Daily offers some good advice on building and keeping trust when you don’t work physically next to your coworkers or clients. Check out the article here.
I’ve been working with clients, partners and teammates remotely for years, and I’ve found that a focus on high-touch communication and relationship building is [...]


ProductCamp Austin: A great success!

The second ever ProductCamp started in Austin at 8am this morning. I had never been to any BarCamp-style “un-conference” before, but I must say I really enjoyed it. It was active, informative and agile, in the sense that we the participants, voted on the sessions at the beginning of the day, we were [...]


See you at ProductCamp Austin?

I’m looking forward to attending/participating in the upcoming ProductCamp Austin on 14 June, organized by Paul Young.

ProductCamp is a collaborative unconference about Product Marketing and Management
In the spirit of BarCamp, ProductCamp is a collaborative, user organized unconference, focused on Product Marketing and Management topics. At ProductCamp there are no “attendees,” since everyone participates in [...]


Usability (and organizational) Problems with the 2010 US Census

The US Census Bureau is getting ready to conduct the 2010 Census, the population count that will be used to calculate congressional districts and funding. The trouble is, they have usability problems with the handheld computers they were planning to use, in addition to the organizational communication issues you may expect from a government [...]