January 23, 2010
The 7 deadly sins of (Java) software developers # On Lucid Imaginations Blog Jay Hill published a great article on The seven deadly sins of solr. Basically it is a collection of his experiences “analyzing and evaluating a great many instances of Solr implementations, running in some of the largest Fortune 500 companies”. It is a collection of common mistakes, mis-configurations and pitfalls in Solr installations in production use.
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January 6, 2010
How much of Scrum is implemented? # I have started using Scrum for various purposes: It has inspired the way software is developed at my current employer. I use it to organize a students’ project at university. In addition we are using it at home to get all personal tasks (preparing breakfast, doing the laundry, meeting with friends…) in line for each week.
Constantly looking for ways to evaluate, refine and improve work - I am also looking for ideas on how to evaluate which aspects of the Scrum implementation can actually be improved.
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November 26, 2009
ScrumTisch Berlin - November # This evening Marion organised another successful Scrumtisch: Usually we either meet for timeboxed discussions on Scrum and agile development questions or a speaker is invited to present his favourite Scrum or Lean or Agile topic.
Today Markus Frick gave a presentation of how Scrum was introduced at SAP, a German software company. They started implementing Scrum in a “small” team of about 60 people, organised in about six to seven teams.
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October 12, 2009
Scrumtisch with Mary and Tom Poppendiek # Yesterday evening the Scrumtisch Berlin hosted a talk by Mary Poppendiek on Lean Development. Mary started the session with a talk on what lean development is all about and why it goes further than Scrum ever did. Some of the core principles she explained:
The first goal of every lean project should be to strive for customer satisfaction. The low hanging fruit is to do exactly what the customer wanted to have.
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October 6, 2009
Scrum Day Düsseldorf # On 01. to 02. December the Scrum Day is going to take place in Düsseldorf.
If you are working in a non-Scrum company and would like to use agile methods both for development and management, I would like to recommend going to the talk by Thilo Fromm: Scrum in a waterfall. He explains how he transformed his project to an agile way in a waterfall environment.
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September 23, 2009
Scrum Tisch # Title: Scrum Tisch
Description: The Scrumtisch on October 11th will feature a talk by Mary Poppendieck.
She will join that extraordinary Scrumtisch at 6pm.
The location is not yet defined yet, because Marion first needs to know how many of are coming.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-10-11
September 23, 2009
Scrum Tisch # Title: Scrum Tisch
Location: La Vecchia Trattoria
Description: The next Scrum Tisch organized by Marion Eickmann takes place this Thursday. Since a pretty long time the format will be open for questions, prioritized by the participants again.
The location is in Niederbarnimstraße 25, near U-Bahn Samariterstrasse.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-09-24
June 21, 2009
Scrum Table Berlin # Last week I attended the scrum table Berlin. This time around Phillippe gave a presentation on “backlog colours”, that is types of work items tracked in the backlog.
The easiest type to track are features - that is items that generate revenue and are on the wishlist of the customer. Second type of items he sees are infrastructure items - that is, things needed to implement several features but invisible to the customer.
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June 4, 2009
Scrum Tisch # Title: Scrum Tisch
Location: Divino FHain
Link out: Click here
Description: Philippe will present his speech from the Orlando scrum Gathering where he will speak about backlog and time-box, about value versus cost, about visible features versus invisible features (and in particular software architecture), about defects and technical debt, and more generally about release planning and sprint planning for non-trivial and long-lived software development projects.
Start Time: 18:00
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May 24, 2009
Ken Schwaber in Berlin XBerg # Last week I attended a discussion meetup with Ken Schwaber in Berlin/ Kreuzberg. The event was scheduled pretty shortly
still quite a few developers and project managers from various companies in Berlin showed up.
Ken started with a brief summary of the history of Scrum: Before there was such a thing as an IT industry programming actually was a lot of fun. But somehow the creative job was turned into something people tend to suffer from pretty quickly as people tried to apply principles from manufacturing industries to software “production”.
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