This past week I’ve been attending the Agile 2010 conference here in Orlando, FL. For those who don’t know, the Agile 20xx series of conferences came because of the combination of two separate conferences in 2005 – XPUniverse and Agile Development Conference. Since that time, the conference has grown quite a bit – this year…
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Technically Distributed: Tools and Techniques for Distributed Teams
This afternoon at Agile 2010 I ran a session called Technically Distributed: Tips and Techniques for Distributed Teams (slides are at the end of this post). While I gave information about some of the tools I’ve used for teams, I think the key revelations came from two exercises we did. In the first, the teams…
Come Learn About Innovation Games Online This Friday!
Are you interested in learning about Innovation Games? This Friday, June 25th, 2010, I’m going to be facilitating a free game of Prune the Product Tree for the first 8 people to sign up at the registration page. If you’ve been interested in Innovation Games, or want to see what it is all about, this…
Slides and Video from Product Planning and Prioritization with Innovation Games
At XP2010 I gave a workshop on using Innovation Games to do product planning and prioritization. While I was able to post the pictures pretty quickly, I had to process the video and the slides. Below is the video and slides that were presented during the first part of the workshop. The second part was…
Come Play Innovation Games for the Agile Developer Skills Project!
Recently, D. André Dhondt posted to the Agile Developer Skills mailing list that he was stepping down from leading the group. The project, for those not familiar, was working to catalog the skills an agile developer would need, and provide roadmaps and guideposts to help grow people working with agile methods. There’s more information on…
Growing and Fostering Craftsmanship
Yesterday at the XP2010 conference in Trondheim, Norway I gave a talk on Growing and Fostering Software Craftsmanship. The session was recorded by the conference, but I also recorded using my Flip camera. I put my video online, as well as the slides, and I’m hoping to also be able to post the conference video…
The InfoQ article on the First CSD Course
This week, InfoQ published an article about the first Certified Scrum Developer class held by Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson a few weeks ago. There has been a lot of fuss from the people quoted in the article that it misrepresents them and takes things out of context. Perhaps that is the case, as I…
Post Agile Companies
Post Agile. I first heard the term several weeks ago in Chicago. It was used to define companies who had started up from 2005 onward. Companies who had been versed in the Agile Manifesto, who understood Lean Principles, to whom agile was second nature. These are companies doing Scrum – Daily Standups, Product Backlogs, Scrum…
First Look at Psscor2 the new WinDBG Debugging Extension for Managed Code
About two weeks ago Microsoft announced the release of Psscor2 – a managed debugging extension for WinDBG which is a superset of the awesome SOS debugging extension. This is an insanely useful tool when you are trying to debug problems on Production machines where you don’t (and can’t) install Visual Studio, or when you need…
Helping the “Wally”s of the World
There’s been a lot of great posts around the ‘net since my last post on Certification. Some notable ones include Ron Jeffries, George Dinwiddie’s and Chet Hendrickson. In Chet’s post, he asks the following question: The CSD is not a panacea; it is one more arrow in our quiver. When you get done mocking it,…