In Bangalore, on my way back to Singapore. It is another late night flight. I hate them and consider the new Bangalore airports to be perhaps one of the least interesting airports in the world. Still an hour before my flight leave, hope I can stay awake. Last weeks I&
Michael Feathers came up with an excellent list of must-read papers from programmers (he is bored, his head it too heavy). You can find it here: http://michaelfeathers.tumblr.com/post/81489281/10-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice There were some papers I didn't know, but also some papers I'd think
Scrumban in a small book by Corey Ladas self-published by lulu.com. The name is somewhat confusing since most of the book is about setting up a SW Kanban system and only a couple of pages are about scrumban (the hybrid between kanban and scrum). Scrumban is an rather interesting
I moved odd-e.com and my blog to a new server. The old user names should still be working, but please let me know if you experience any problems. Bas (in San Francisco right now)
Finally. Today I ran to the Fedex to grab my package from them. I just came back to Singapore and hadn't been here for 3 weeks. Last time, they destroyed my package. Didn't want that to happen this time because... Its my own book! Finally the
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Last week, I was at the Scan-Agile conference in Helsinki. I did a completely new presentation which I called "Journey through product development literature". It was a new style of presentation that only consisted of quotes from different books. I had a lot of fun making and doing
Last week been test-driving some C code again and found that not much people are familiar with the "function pointer link stub". This is an excellent technique in C to dynamically replace library calls without adjusting the library. Imagine, you are working on some embedded software. You will
Last week, I finally received the new "Agile Portfolio Management" book, a book I was looking forward to reading. Organizational issues related to Agile are important since most people assume Agile development does not affect organizational issues, but nothing could be further from the truth. When adopting agile
This week... I'm jetlagged. Because, last week I was in Toronto (which is 12h timezone difference from where I live) and joining the Agile2008 conference. It was an excellent conference. I had a lot of fun and it was so great meeting people whom I hadn't
At the moment, most of my time is spend writing on the new book which I'm writing with Craig Larman. Writing is awfully hard, but I'm learning and Craig is helping me a lot fixing my poor writing skills. Recently we pre-published one of the chapters
I just finished the fairly new book from Scott Bain called "Emergent Design". The book was good and I was disappointed. I expected much more, based on the title, but the book basically was just a summary of good agile practices. I did write a fairly large Amazon