Raymond Lewallen

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• There is too much money to be made in software development

  Its true. Too much money is available to IT. As a business with too much money assigned to an IT budget, you’re allowed to have teams completely fail, miserably, and when they do, you just throw more money at it. Lack of money isn’t the problem. The failures... Posted Jan 22 2008, 07:59 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 73 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Agile, Alt.Net, Featured, Generalities

• Are you a problem solver or a developer?

  I had this conversation with some friends on Twitter about a month ago and have been thinkinng about it ever since. We are all professionals, but professional what? I have come to the conclusion that I am a problem solver. That’s my business. Whether... Posted Dec 27 2007, 12:23 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 26 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Featured

• As a scrummaster, scrum is not my first option to a new client

  I had this discussion briefly at BarCamp Dallas yesterday. The question came up as to how do I describe scrum to my client? When going into a new client, I don’t. There are a lot of companies out there that are reading about scrum and learning scrum on... Posted Sep 30 2007, 02:42 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Alt.Net, Featured, Scrum

• Alt.Net does NOT equal Anti-Microsoft

  I've had this post sitting in the queue forever. Not forever, but about 2 months. Before I start, I'd love to be able to go back and quote the mass amount of Alt.Net posts that have come out of CB over the last few days, but to be honest I don't... Posted Sep 24 2007, 08:08 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 24 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Agile, Alt.Net, Featured, OOP, Patterns and Practices, TDD