Kane Mar
Adventures in Agile Software Development and Scrum
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10.0Kane
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5.1Kane Mar
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1.0Announcing the Seattle Scrum Users Group.
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1.0Munich: April 18 - April 19
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6.3Vienna: April 11th - 12th
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7.2Copenhagen: 5th - 6th March
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7.2Stockholm: March 21st and 22nd.
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7.2Helsinki: March 14th and 15th
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7.2“Eating one’s own dogfood” should not be an excuse for reduced quality
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1.0Ryan McMinn on building a successful business with Rails
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1.0Board Games: Bellevue, January 2007
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1.0Applying the Principle of Postponement to Software Architecture
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1.0The European tour
Thursday September 11th, 2008
What did he say?
From Kane Mar, 25 days ago,
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It’s been a long while since I’ve posted video links. The reason or this apparent lack of activity is simply because I haven’t seen anything new or news-worth for some time. However, just in the last few days there have been two links that I think are worth passing along. The first video is a [...]
Wednesday September 3rd, 2008
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From Kane Mar, 1 month ago,
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Roman Pilcher recently announced the formation of a London Scrum Users group. Here’s the original message:
As you may have heard, we are starting a Scrum user group in London. The first meeting will take place on 14 Oct 2008, 7 pm in the Old Bank of England pub, London. The details are here: www.scrumalliance.org/events/20-london-scrum-user-group-inaugural-meeting. Do [...]
Monday April 21st, 2008
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From Kane Mar, 5 months ago,
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Update: part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.
The last session that I’d like to report on is Lowell’s “Affinity Estimating.” Affinity Estimating is a technique many teams use to quickly and easily estimate (in Story Points) a large number of user stories. This is a great technique if you’re just starting a project [...]
Saturday January 19th, 2008
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From Kane Mar, 8 months ago,
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Back in July, 2007 Pete Behrens announced the first draft of a Certified Scrum Coaching (CSC) program. In the words of the original post:
This program is designed to complement the current Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) education-based programs, the Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) direct experience-based program and the Certified Scrum Trainer [...]
Tuesday July 24th, 2007
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Announcing the Seattle Scrum Users Group.
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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I’m pleased to announce the formation of the Seattle area Scrum users group. I’ve been working on this for a while now, and it’s finally coming together. All the details are at the groups website: http://SeattleScrum.org
I’m especially excited to announce that our first speaker will be Damian Evans, VP for Product Development at Qpass, who [...]
Monday May 7th, 2007
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Munich: April 18 - April 19
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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Munich proved to be one of the friendliest places I’ve been to. On two separate occasions someone went out of their way to help to provide directions; there was a kindly old gentleman that traveled several train stops to ensure we were getting on the right train; and the Grandmother that continued with the conversation [...]
Saturday May 5th, 2007
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Vienna: April 11th - 12th
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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I’ve always thought of it as a small central European country … which it is, but this has not always been the case. It was once the heart of one of the most powerful (if not the most powerful) empires in Europe and today Vienna contains many of the majestic artifacts and buildings from that [...]
Friday April 13th, 2007
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Copenhagen: 5th - 6th March
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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Copenhagen is a nice small city with a great deal of history, many beautify buildings and friendly, funny, crazy people! I’d been to Copenhagen many, many years ago, but I’m always looking for new and interesting facts. Here are some things I never knew about Denmark:
There is a bridge that links Copenhagen to Sweden, and [...]
Saturday March 31st, 2007
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Stockholm: March 21st and 22nd.
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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Stockholm is a truly beautify city with graceful old buildings looking out over the water and an picturesque old city center. The Swedish are open, friendly and incredibly polite! While I was training there they gave me an overview of their culture and language. Here are a few things I never knew about Sweden:
Santa Claus [...]
Monday March 26th, 2007
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Helsinki: March 14th and 15th
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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The CSM training course in Helsinki went exceptionally well. Everyone made me very welcome and there were some great conversations about what happens when you don’t focus on delivering high quality software.
We also had some good conversations over lunch about Finland and Finnish culture. Here are a few things that I never knew:
Finnish workers [...]
Wednesday February 28th, 2007
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“Eating one’s own dogfood” should not be an excuse for reduced quality
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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Personal Comment: I started this article about 5 months ago and it’s just been sitting in my queue. I’ve been undecided about publishing because I’m not especially fond of it. But rather than let the bits rot, I thought I’d share it in the hope that someone will get some benefit out of it. If [...]
Friday February 16th, 2007
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Ryan McMinn on building a successful business with Rails
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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When I started adding links to great Agile videos ([1], [2] and [3]) I thought that it would just be a single occurrence, but I keep finding videos that are informative, educational and inspiring. So, while the videos keep coming I’ll keep referring to them. The last few that I posted were very educational. They’re [...]
Monday February 5th, 2007
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Board Games: Bellevue, January 2007
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) course that I run involves a simulation of a Scrum team. It has changed over time so where I originally played the XP game [1], I’m now doing a fully Scrum immersion that involves every part of the Scrum process. During the immersion I ask the team to create a product. [...]
Saturday January 13th, 2007
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Applying the Principle of Postponement to Software Architecture
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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This article is about my further understanding about Agile software development. As I my understanding of Agile software development has increased, so has the conflict between my established ideas and what I now see happening in the real world. The latest casualty was my belief that having repeated code or components is bad.
I was [...]
Friday December 29th, 2006
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The European tour
From Kane Mar, 1 year ago,
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It’s been a busy few months with clients, training and the occasional blog posting. To add to all this activity, I’ve agree to do a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training tour of Europe. This is going to be exciting because I haven’t been to Europe for over 10 years. It’ll be an interesting contrast after [...]