The Random Musings

Since recently completing the ScrumMaster certification course, I started participating on the ScrumDevelopment mailing list, hosted on Yahoo groups and moderated by Ken Schwaber himself.  Unfortunately Ken has posted a couple of responses on various threads, attempting to keep the content pure to Scrum and not allow methodologists pollute the mailing list with other Agile [...]

One of the goals of any organization that is trying to move away from a traditional waterfall environment is to address the performance review process so that goals that are required to help ensure that the team meets its commitments in an Agile way, are easily identifiable in the review.
Jeff Sutherland has posted on his [...]

Yesterday I was able to take some time from a small team and provide an overview of Scrum to them.  This team deliver Web Service SDK that is consumed by other products within the Identity and Resource business units.
Enough on them, more about me . . .
The presentation itself took about an hour [...]

x11vnc: a VNC server for real X displays
A utility that provides the presentation functionality of VNC under Linux, without starting a new session.
(tags: vnc xserver x11)

While attending the Certified ScrumMaster course, one of the participants from ThoughtWorks, was explaining that they used acceptance tests as part of their done criteria for product backlog features.  To get this to work, they use FitNesse.
I had tried it out a while back, and my first impression was that someone would abstract out the [...]

Massachusetts Public School Rankings
Massachusetts School Rankings site.
(tags: schools rankings)

I wish I was able to take time and collect my thoughts immediately after the course, but I was determined to get on the road and arrive home as early as possible. So, I am using my notes to trigger insights that I experienced during the course, and enter them in this post.
Can a [...]

For Scrum, a term that comes up for daily standup meetings and sprints is that a feature is done. What does that mean and who controls that definition?
There are apparently two places where it is used, and thus potentially two definitions of done.  The first is when a member of the team during a [...]

A thing I learnt today in the ScrumMaster certification course was that Waterfall is good . . . . when you are using it to control a defined process for predictable software development (maybe an oxymoron).  A very rare state and situation to find yourself.  Rather professionals in our trade find themselves in the situation [...]

3spots: del.icio.us, digg clones and Open Source Social Bookmarking Engines
Site of links to clones of digg, del.icio.us and social bookmarking engines.
(tags: clone digg)