Jazoon Reports: Value of Objects and Maven 3.0 Talks
Published June 9th, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
Kevlin Henney presented a lively talk about the concepts of object and value in software development. Kevlin is a lively and wise presenter, so don’t miss this guy if you have the chance to be at a conference where he speaks. His talk was a kind of philosophical musing even if he was always firmly rooted in programming. Read more
Jazoon Reports: Java SE and SDK 7 + Java and Flex Talks
Published June 8th, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
The first keynote of the Jazoon conference was presented by Danny Coward. He mentioned that we were close to the 15 anniversary of Java that was officially announced May 23 1995. On the historical side, he also showed us a nice video of James Gosling demonstrating in 1992 a prototype running on what will become Java. The interface looks very close to what you get now on an iPhone. Read more
Defining “Done” Completely in Scrum
Published June 7th, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
I have published on DevAgile.com another report from the Jazoon conference in Zurich. Ken Schwaber talked about the importance of having a good definition of the concept of “done” and the lack of technical practices in Scrum projects that lead to technical debt.
Jazoon Reports: 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know by Kevlin Henney
Published June 3rd, 2010 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
Methods & Tools is the sponsor of a large number of software development conferences, but I cannot find the time and budget to visit them. This year I managed to find some time spend some time at Jazoon, a major Java event located in Zurich, Switzerland. I will present in this blog some of the interesting things that I heard.
Nothing beats experience in software development and usually you learn the important things the hard way. This presentation is based on an O’Reilly book with contribution from 73 different people and edited by Kevlin Henney. He presented for us 17 of them in his lively style. Read more
Agile Software Development Adoption Obstacles
Published May 31st, 2010 Under Quotes | Leave a Comment
I have just started reading the book “Succeeding with Agile” by Mike Cohn. Here are some quotes from the initial pages that deal with the difficulties of transitioning to Agile.
“I’ve personally witnessed several failed agile adoptions that could have been prevented. The first was in a company that had spent more than a million dollars on its transition effort. Executives brought in outside trainers and coaches and hired five people into an “Agile Office” to which new Scrum teams could turn for advice. The company’s failure was the result of thinking that the implications of adopting Scrum would be restricted to only the development organization. The executives who initiated this transition thought that educating and supporting developers would be sufficient. They failed to consider how Scrum would touch the work of salespeople, the marketing group, and even the finance department. Without changes to these areas, organizational gravity pulled the company back where it had started.” Read more
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