High Tech in the Hub

I despise story points. Not dislike: despise. I’ve tried to like them, almost always driven an internal evangelist who’s convinced a team cannot truly adopt agile without story points. I’ve used story point poker, fibonacci sequences, and burndown charts in more teams than I care to admit.

Last summer over lunch with the CTO & co-founder of Care.com, Dave Krupinski, we got to talked about the challenge of managing new products innovation inside an existing growing business. Dave, a former colleague from Easel days, had done what every entrepreneur dreams of doing: building his idea into

I like to think you can simplify the building of products in our industry into the management of four things: people, projects, process and content. The people are the engineers, designers and product managers who produce the product. The projects are the initiatives being executed in support of the creation

The big news of the week is the massive DDoS attack against the US internet, which impacted several major cloud providers. The attack was reportedly executed by supporters of WikiLeaks in response to the government of Ecuador taking away Julian Assange's internet link. Yes, you read that right: our internet

Watching the election this year has been like passing a car crash on Route 93. I don’t want to slow down and look, but I can’t stop myself. It has been a year of political firsts: the first time a presidential candidate has singled out a religious group;

Last year on a long drive from New York, my wife and I found the Tech in Boston podcast. If you are in Boston technology and haven't listened to Dave Gerhardt's podcast, you are missing out on one of the best channels for startup shop talk in the area. At