Agile

Software For Standup Meetings

Remember when we all didn’t use Slack all the time? There’s a pretty cool app for Slack called SUP. In a nutshell, it allows you to collect a lot of data from team members which they can answer throughout the day….meaning you don’t have to take time during the meeting to get arbitrary stuff like mood, etc. That way you keep the main thing the main thing during the actual standup. SUP can be found over at https://sup.today/

The things that make a standup great today are the things that made one great 10 years ago, only now we may be using different tools to reach the same objectives. We didn’t live in the age of remote work and distributed teams a decade ago, so the tools we use have had to evolve. Still, a good meeting is a thing of beauty. Here’s a rundown of what it takes to keep things running smoothly.

Agile: Not Just for Breakfast Anymore

Since the early 2000’s when Scrum/Agile really started coming into its own in software development, a lot has changed. The non-software world took notice, and now we’re seeing Agile methodologies being used in manufacturing, IT, DevOps, and other areas. Perhaps somewhat ironically, Agile is constantly evolving, iterating, and changing. As such, there are trends concerning where the philosophy of Agile is headed as a whole (beyond just Scrum.) This article discusses some of those trends. I’m particularly interested in seeing how AI and ML can assist within an Agile framework, and how that might help us all be even more efficient.