SolutionsIQ’s Certified Product Owner Course

June 19, 2009 | by Lorill
Working as both a Developer and as a ScrumMaster has skewed my perspective a bit to be dev-team centric, so I recently took SolutionsIQ’s Certified Product Owner course to learn more about the scrum software development process through the eyes of a Product Owner. The course was laid out in a novel way – as a [...]
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Lead Yourself Before Leading Others

June 19, 2009 | by Lorill
That was the biggest take away I got when recently reading “Powerful Project Leadership” by Wayne Strider. As I’ve been taking on some more Project Leadership responsibilities, I wanted to read some material that focused more on Project Leadership than simply Project Management, and this book came highly recommended. After sifting through some of the more [...]
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Integration with Legacy Systems

January 15, 2009 | by Lorill
Working on new solutions for large organizations can have many challenges, one of the most frequent is the need to integrate a new solution with legacy software solutions. In 2008 we embarked on a journey to make a software solution for the OECD to allow for a more user-friendly experience when searching for Aid data [...]
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Going Agile with Large Organizations

January 15, 2009 | by Lorill
We, here at 2Paths, are avid Agile Software Development and SCRUM practitioners. SCRUM works very well in the ideal project: from five to nine developers and one on-site Product Owner. But how well does this work with large organizations, especially those that are overseas? We recently had the pleasure of working on a project with the OECD, [...]
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Building GRAILS app on Debian using Maven GRAILS Plugin

December 23, 2008 | by Lorill
We’re now using GRAILS in one of our Maven-ized projects, and have it building using the Maven GRAILS plugin. We needed to roll this integration out to Husdon, our CI server which is running on a Debian box. We ran into a couple of snags. We had downloaded and installed the debian package grails_1.0.4-1_all.deb [...]
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