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Saturday March 31st, 2007
7.2
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
7.2
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
7.2
“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
1.0
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
1.0
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
1.0
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
1.0
The European tour
From Kane Mar, over 2 years 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 [...]
Tuesday December 26th, 2006
1.0
“Competing on the basis of speed” by Mary Poppendiecks at Google TechTalk
From Kane Mar, over 2 years ago,
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Here’s another excellent Google TechTalk. This one is given by Mary Poppendieck, author of “Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit for Software Development Managers” and “Implementing Lean Software Development“.
The talk is called “Competing on the basis of speed” and discuss how speed can create a huge competitive advantage. The talk is very Lean focused (as [...]
Friday December 1st, 2006
1.0
Dave Astel talks about behaviour driven development
From Kane Mar, over 2 years ago,
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Dave Astels (co-author of “A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming” and “Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide” recently gave a talk about Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) at Google. Thankfully they captured that talk and it’s now available at:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8135690990081075324
I like some of the ideas that he talks about, but I have no experience with BDD. I’ll have [...]
Tuesday November 28th, 2006
7.0
Three Enhanced Release Burndown patterns
From Kane Mar, over 2 years ago,
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The Enhanced (or Alternative) Release Burndown graph [1],[2] is a great tool and one of my personal favourites. It demonstrates several things very clearly. It demonstrates:
The rate at which work is being completed by the team
The rate at which new work is being added to the product backlog
And, it can be used to determine a [...]
Tuesday November 7th, 2006
1.0
Seven common Sprint Burndown graph signatures
From Kane Mar, over 2 years ago,
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This first appeared on the ScrumAlliance.org website on October 30th. It is presented here in its original unedited form.
Burndown graphs are commonly used in Scrum projects to give the team an understanding of the amount of work remaining for the Sprint (or iteration). In Ken’s own words:
“As a team works together, it develop its own [...]
Saturday October 7th, 2006
1.0
Allowing time for testing
From Kane Mar, over 2 years ago,
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Update: Ed Gibbs writes (here) about some of the challenges that he’s facing within his organization. Interesting stuff.
I like two week iterations. The short timeframe ensures quick feedback, and makes the team more responsive to the Product Owners needs. But two week iterations can be very uncomfortable for teams that are familiar with delivery cycles [...]
Wednesday September 13th, 2006
1.0
Ken’s presentation at Google.
From Kane Mar, over 2 years ago,
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Ken Schwaber[1] recently did a talk at Google and they recorded the session. He provides an overview of Scrum and covers many of the basics. It’s an excellent video and you can find it here.
References
[1] Ken’s Home page
[2] ScrumAlliance
Saturday September 9th, 2006
1.0
Writing User Stories
From Kane Mar, over 2 years ago,
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This last week I was at the ScrumExchange conference down in Palo Alto. It was an great conference and I especially enjoyed the sessions led by Matt Smith [2]. They were thought provoking and very entertaining … an great foil for some of the other heavy material.
While there, I gave a talk on writing Users [...]
Saturday August 12th, 2006
1.0
Performing odd jobs with Selenium helper pages
From Kane Mar, over 2 years ago,
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Selenium [1] is a nice tool for testing browser based user interfaces. It’s simple to install and with the firefox IDE plugin, it’s even easier to use. But there are some tests that are just not accessible through a UI. Should you even test functionality that’s not immediately expressed, and if so how?