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,…
The Proverbial Train Has Left the Station.
Ron Jeffries has up a post titled Opportunity to Advance the Craft about the Certified Scrum Developer program. He says: Here’s the good news: the camel has his nose well inside the tent. Here are some reasons why: and Whether we like it or not, the words ‘certified’ and ‘developer’ are going to be adjacent…
Agile 2010 – Team Room Agile Selection Process
This evening we sent our stacked ranked list to our Theme producer for the Agile 2010 conference. Our stage, Team-Room Agile, was one of 5 stages in the Technical theme of the conference. According to our working document, we had a total of 330 submissions for a total of 55 slots. Our stage was the…
IronRuby for the .NET Developer Presentation from MIX10
This afternoon I presented a session covering the basics of Ruby and IronRuby for .NET Developers at the MIX10 conference in Las Vegas. Thanks to everyone who came out! The session was recorded, and the video and slides are below! IronRuby for the .NET Developer View more presentations from Cory Foy.
Developer Certification Isn’t About Hiring
In a recent post about Developer Certification, the author mentions hiring as the best way to find candidates, making developer certification about finding developers you can hire. And in many ways that makes sense – if you want the best, adjust your hiring process to find the best. But that’s not why the Certified Scrum…