Visualising a sprint

April 22nd, 2007 | 3 Comments | Tagged as ,

It’s been two weeks since the Scrum Master training by Jeff Sutherland. The freshly certified Scrum Masters returned back to the office and started spreading the knowledge (and enthousiasm) immediatelly. (The secret handskahe would not escape the attention of a careful observer, either).

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MaxĂŻmo Park @ Melkweg

April 21st, 2007 | No Comments | Tagged as , ,

I admit, I didn’t know their music very well. In fact, I hardly new a song or two from their first album, and got to listen to their new album “Our Earthly Pleasures” just a copule of days before the concert. So I headed to Melkweg on Thursday night as a blank page, as an undercover stranger to mingle amogst the dedicated fans. MaxĂŻmo Park @ Melkweg in Amsterdam.

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Enpower the developer

April 4th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Tagged as ,

Jeff SutherlandIn the software development world there is one word which cannot be overlooked, especially in the past few years. The word is “agile”. Aiming to make the software development effective by freeing the spirit and fueling the talents and motvations of software developers, agile methods offer an alternative to the “tyranny of the waterfall” or the “illusion of command and controll” of the software development managers. Being a software team leader and developer myself, I’ve been for some time looking for the tools to fight the inherently unpredictible and unknowable factors in the software development. I’ve been looking until I learned the “a-word” a year ago and started trying it out soon after.

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