Agile Pain Point: Product Debt

Product Debt is the culmination of competing business needs, functionality requests, hastily made design decisions, quick fixes, wonky workarounds, and then some –  that has led to a feature-crowded, possibly clunky, and oftentimes not very usable product. You’ve heard it before, agile product delivery is a balancing act between building…

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Partnerships Build Spacecraft

SpaceX's first commercial rocketed space ship

By: Darren Hoevel As it turns out, it wasn’t the launch (or lack thereof) of SpaceX’s first American commercial crewed rocketed spacecraft on May 27th that got me giddy about the future of space travel and beyond. In and of itself, Launch Day was an exciting one for my family…

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Certifiably Certified

By: Darren Hoevel I’m up to something like 5,000 contacts on LinkedIn (I’m a people person, damnit!).  It’s safe to say, I don’t have close professional relationships with all of them… yet.  Still, I was a little surprised when I shared some thoughts in a post a few months ago…

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Agile in the Bathroom

When my husband and I bought our house a year and a half ago, we knew we’d eventually have to renovate all the bathrooms in our house, but most importantly, the master bathroom. Somewhere along the years the original 1960 speckled blue shower tile had been epoxy painted a shiny…

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