Distributed teams need to meet in person every once in a while. Here are some thoughts and suggestions on team meetings.

I very much prefer working from home to working from an office. But with little kids in the house, that’s a nontrivial endeavor.

Scrum is irrational, impractical, and outright dangerous for software development. It is time to stop considering it a viable method for building software.

Over the past couple of years, it seems that the term ecosystem is being broadly applied to what we previously called a community. I don’t like that, and here’s why.

The origin of the term ecosystem, when applied to the environment in which a software project is being …

During lunch at the EMEA OpenStack day in London this week, I had a brief but excellent conversation with fellow OpenStacker Adam Spiers from SUSE. Our chat turned to the merits of working from home, and he encouraged me to write up a blog post about some of the ideas …