More CSM
Monday, Tuesday I had a CSM in Utrecht with Jens. Training with Jens is quite easy since it's easy to agree on who does what. He's flexible and I think, so am I. We felt the training went better than the one in Helsinki. Still the
Bas Vodde
CSM Helsinki
I'm still alive. Lots of stuff been happening the last months. Anyways, had a Certified Scrum Master class in Helsinki today and that went reasonably well. It also gave some new ideas to adjust and work on my own material. Thanks to the students for their excellent questions
Dear XP -> Japanese song about XP
Quite amazing. Dear XP
Scrum: Product backlog - Sprint backlog - Done
I've made this interesting picture about Scrum. It shows the product backlog, product owner, sprint backlog, team and definition of "done" in one clear picture. I think I'll make it in a powerpoint and add to my standard training material.
Weird TDD report
Someone pointed out this interesting research report from Microsoft Research about TDD. The research report claims that TDD results in higher quality, but that it also results in an increase in development time. This sounds rather surprising and weird to me. When reading the article, however, a few lines are
2 week iteration retrospectives
Last months I've been involved in an agile project that runs in 2 week iterations. Of course, at the end of every iteration we hold an iteration retrospective. These have been extremly productive. 3 weeks ago we selected a "theme" for the retrospective instead of looking
Bugs in Agile
I would like to state again that "any agile project should not have much open defects". Let me explain this a little more. First, the reason for not keeping defects open has several reasons. The first kind-of obvious reason is that the longer it stays open, the more
UNIX bar
Most interesting bar. Sounds like a bar for me :)
Scrum in 29 minutes
As I wrote earlier, this week I was in the Euromicro SEAA conference. There I gave a tutorial on Agile together with Pekka Abrahamson from VTT, Ko Dooms from Phillips and Jari Still from F-Secure about practical experiences. Part of the tutorial was just explaining what agile was about, since
Dubrovnik, Croatia
This week I was in Dubrovnik, Croatia on the Euromicro conference. I had a tutorial together with some other people. More on that later, just some pictures of Cavtat, the place where the conference really was. It was nice weather for 2 days...
Converting greymatter to b2evolution
I was converting Y's blog from greymatter to b2evolution. There is no ready-made conversion. The trick was to export the greymatter blog to movable type export format. Then use the b2evolution movable type format import to import the blog entries. I'm using the latest one-month-old b2evolution
Reflections on installing TWiki
Yesterday, I spend some time installing TWiki wiki. Now in itself this is not special. However when reflecting on it, I (re)-learned an important lesson for developers. Let me explain. Installing TWiki is fairly easy. Just follow the installation instructions. However, the no-extention files didn't seem to
Assembly 2006
This year, I've finally been able to go to the Assembly2006 demo party. Years ago, I used to follow the demo scene and even went to some party in Holland. Though the last years, I lost track of it due to other things. Currently I happened to live
First post
Finally found some time to install b2evolution as blog software. I've been playing with Greymatter before. It's kinda ok since it doesn't require mysql databases (which b2evolution does) however it's rather outdated. I was especially annoyed by the rather bad RSS feed.