Slovakia updated on Google Maps

May 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Tagged as , ,

“In the vast universe of Google users, a small cadre of aficionados exists who closely track every move of the search industry leader and act as a kind of editorial board and echo chamber for all things Google” wrote David Vise in his book “The Google Story“. I came across that statement while reading the book yesterday.

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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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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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