The second day in Nagoya, Craig and me went to the Toyota museum. At first we wondered if we would be able to spend the whole day there, though in the end we got removed from the museum because they were closing. The Toyota museum is close to the Nagoya
My first day in Nagoya was spend quite relaxed. I tried to recover from the trip and also from the training the day before. I met up with Craig and Kenji, who were going to join me to Toyota. Today we went to the Toyota factory. After about an hour
Last years, I've traveled way too much. One of the advantages is that you see a lot of cities. Just last week, I was visiting Beijing and was thinking, ah this is actually quite a nice city (I used to live there). So, I decided on making a
Last week I was in Tokyo, there to give the first public CSM course in Japan. It was a wonderful experience, I'm quite happy about it. I arrived very late due to plane delay and we started early the next day. My slides are all translated in Japanese
Last months I've been away way too much. I'm happy to be back at home (China). In August I was in Washington in the Agile2007 conference. It was a great conference and had excellent discussions with lots of people. Washington was hard though, exactly 12 hour
It's been months since my last blog entry. I should really try to blog more often. Anyways, it's not so stange that I didn't have a chance to blog since so much stuff happened since the last post. Oki, just a short overview. January
Due to spam, I've turned off the trackback option. Really too bad. I tried much ways to fight it in different ways. If you know a hack to b2evolution for turning it off better, please let me know.
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
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
Quite amazing. Dear XP
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.
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
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
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
Most interesting bar. Sounds like a bar for me :)
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