There is no doubt that in the past year or so there has been a huge surge in the area of internet technologies that is today commonly known as RIA – Rich Internet Applications. There are a few other techno buzz words I can throw in here that may or may not make it clearer to what the industry is referring to: such as AJAX, Flex or Lazlo and there are a host of others. Even more commonly we hear the now famous “Web 2.0″ moniker used to describe anything from blogs and vlogs to the “pageless experience”. more »

I first posted this on the yahoo scrumdevelopment group in a hope to stimulate some conversation – or at the very least, to stimulate a funny-bone or too. Not sure if I got there so I post it here as the maiden post of the BigVisible blog. May there be many more to come.

A little while ago, after returning from Agile 2006, I posted a remark about how the biggest threat to Agile is not the Pro-Waterfaller or the Anti-Agilist but rather the Crappy Agilist. Well, following some deep introspection and more »

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