With Scrum certification dividing proponents and rivals, one voice of reason appears: Ron Jeffries tries to focus the discussion back on fighting bad software, with or without certifications. Mostly without. I want to take this up a notch. We want good software that makes good business sense. And this goes well with Uncle Bob’s blog
XP is not harder than Scrum. Or easier. The problem/challenge (depending on how you look at it) for any successful adoption of a practice is the willingness of people to change what they are doing now, and stick to it. If people do not commit, to say, daily stand-ups they wouldn’t do it, even though
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In the discussions we had in alt.net last week, specifically the one on teaching and learning, Ohad talked about having the need to consult with other architects. (He went on to found the IASA Israeli chapter). And then he asked – if you’re one of the guys who want to learn, yet you don’t have
Yesterday was Alt.Net Israel 3rd meeting. I missed the pre-meeting on Thursday, and came in only for the discussions on Friday. There were a couple of differences from earlier Alt.Net conferences. The first, is that topics were grouped together to mini-“tracks”. So the time allocated was for a couple of topics (and sometimes we even
In my interview with Uncle Bob, he mentioned a special model of apprenticeship. If people are to grow within a company in skills and experience, they need time. But if people change jobs every 2 years in average, how does that going to happen? What if you could switch jobs, on the job? Two companies
If this Dilbert strip causes me to move uncomfortably in my chair, instead of making me laugh, I’ve really crossed the border to marketingland…
After my webcast story post, a professional webcasting coach contacted me and asked if he can talk about the experience. We had a insightful talk yesterday. What I described, and what we do in the webcast, and it’s also true for the early webinars - was like agile development. Now in reflection, that’s what we
I think I put more effort to this presentation because I had only 10 minutes. And I needed to relay the message in that time. Apparently I did. But my point was not that DFT sucks. The intended result is good design, and that’s also possible without DFT. Testability is not a goal. It’s a
If you’re in Prague tomorrow, Feb-13-2010, a conference called Knetlik takes place. The cool and interesting thing about it – it’s a series of short presentations. All of them are about 10 minutes long + 5 minutes for Q&A. Then it’s on to the next one. Andrew Kazyrevich, asked me if I would like to