Essential Agile

The Agile approach to software development has been one of the more fun innovations of the past few years. It’s fun because so much of Agile involves saying out loud truths which everyone knew but no one would acknowledge or act on. Things like: “No Product...

Innovation is Easy

Every now and then a client comes to us looking for innovation—some competitor has come out with a product that’s stealing their market, or their old product is running out of steam and they need a new direction. They usually think that coming up with the innovative...

“Rapid Contextual Design” is Translated Into Korean

This hands-on guide for people who need practical direction on how to use the Contextual Design process and adapt it to tactical projects with tight timelines has now been translated into Korean. A Japanese version will be published in January 2010. These two...

InContext at Agile 2009 Conference

Agile 2009 is the yearly international conference on agile software development. I’ll be presenting a tutorial called Four Core Concepts for Fast User Feedback in which I’ll be talking about techniques for getting good (and real) customer feedback into agile...