Agile Tour in Strasbourg – (partial) feedback

hi I went yesterday to the Agile Tour 2009 event in Strasbourg. Overall, I was fearing it to be a bit dull, the program looking not so attractive. Yet I found it quite interesting and worth the time spent. Maybe low expectations helped, I don’t know, still I’m happy of this outcome. Let’s dig through [...]

Scrum Master certification

i did an CSM course last week. Trainer was Roman Pichler, whom you might know from his german Scrum book. even though i was a little disappointed with too little time for Q&A and having read his book, this course does not bring additional theoretical knowledge, it was a good experience. first of all, Roman [...]

ridiculous

this looks rather weird to me. Orlando Scrum as it operated until this spring is no more. After reviewing my other commitments and a request to sign a licensing agreement with Scrum Alliance I am ending my involvmet with the group. Today I received an email from Scrum Alliance asking me to sign and agree [...]

User Stories and Release Planning

Quite a good talk (Face & Slides) on InfoQ about the (in Scrum speak) Product Owner’s work on agile development. Watch it

Mingle with the agile crowd

I am a JIRA fan and i hate TRAC. Tracs interface seems to be utterly useless and it is not easy to customize it without spending a significant amount of time for that.JIRA is very different. Its interface is clean, flexible and you can easily create groups that have nothing more than a Type/Title/Text-Form to [...]