ScrumBreakfast, April 9 2009, 8h30-9h45, Geneva
Published March 26th, 2009 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
Julien Piaser from SkyGuide will be speaking about SCRINCH, an open source application that helps managing your projects using the Scrum method. Julien Piaser came to SkyGuide in 2005 after having launched a startup in Mulhouse and having worked as en engineer in oil trading. He’s now in air traffic control, working with a team of 5 people in charge of software about environmental conditions & data for air traffic (weather, airspace occupation, and so on). In addition to being a ScrumMaster and Developer, he assists the project manager in analyzing, coordinating and negotiating with more than twenty stakeholders, from business to technical.
More information on http://genevagile.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/scrumbreakfast-2-in-geneva/
Between the Magic Quadrant and the Bermuda Triangle
Published March 26th, 2009 Under Software Development | 2 Comments
Software vendors are always proud to communicate evaluations from research companies that indicate how good their products are. These ratings are to the software development tools market what the gastronomic guides are for restaurants. You always wonder what is their exact credibility, as relationships between analysts and vendors are not always neutral. You have also witness a lot of “pilot projects” from inside “technology staff” failing to discover how a product really impacts the work of developers and know that evaluating products out of a real context is difficult. Anyway, there are still a lot of people that will use them as a base for their purchase decision. A good position in these evaluations is something sought after, especially by smaller and young companies, as it could be a driver for their future growth. Technology is however only one component of the success equation, as we know that the best products are not always inside the most successful companies. No I didn’t say Microsoft ;o)
Even if the role of these external assessments is still important for the software development market, the rules have certainly changed these recent years. The software tool eco-system has evolved and the relationships between software tools vendors and developers have been transformed, both in their form and in their content. Read more
Spring 2009 issue of Methods & Tools
Published March 23rd, 2009 Under Methods & Tools | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Spring 2009 issue’s content:
* How to Build Articulate Class Models and get Real Benefits from UML
* When Good Architecture Goes Bad
* Finding a Partner to Trust: The Agile RFP
* Database Locking: What it is, Why it Matters and What to do About it
* Code Generation for Dummies
80 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from
http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?spring09
Linkopedia March 2009
Published March 18th, 2009 Under Links | Leave a Comment
10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
Nine Habits You Must Break To Be Successful with Scrum.
DrJava is a lightweight development environment for writing Java programs.
London Java Community: Maven. This video is a whistle stop tour of Maven.
JavaScript: The Good Parts. This video shows the good parts of JavaScript.
Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great! In this video, Esther Derby and Diana Larsen introduce a framework for effective retrospectives.
Find more interesting links on the software development links directory, the software development tools directory, the software development articles directory or the software development videos directory
Looking for Agile Blogs
Published March 9th, 2009 Under News | Leave a Comment
I have recently created a new web site AgileVoices.com that aggregates for RSS feeds concerning agile software development. If you know about a good blog feed that is missing from the current roster, I would be please to add it. Thanks for your cooperation.