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Last month I attended a ScrumMaster course given by Ken Schwaber, one of the founders of Scrum. Ken is a reasonably unassuming man with a casual demeanour and the uncanny ability to help people shoot themselves in the foot by dragging them head first into self awareness of their own roadblocks and limitations in their [...]
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I was fortunate enough to partially attend the Much Ado About Agile Conference held recently in Vancouver, and was immediately drawn to the session “Database Development in Agile World” led by Marc Munro. This was a very timely session as we have recently begun a project that involves refactoring a legacy database and developing a [...]
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I’m known as the ScrumMistress around the office, but as of the end of August I’ve actually officially earned the name. I attended a ScrumMaster course put on by the Software Productivity Center & Winnow Management and am now a certified ScrumMaster. Scrum is an iterative, incremental, Agile process for developing any product or managing any [...]
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In April, 2008, I attended the “No Fluff, Just Stuff” in the guise of the North West Software Symposium, in Seattle, Washington, USA. For those not in the know, the NFJS series is aimed at tech savvy developers interested in expanding their knowledge and exposure to interesting developments in the land of Agile/Java (predominantly). With [...]
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“Are we a CMMI certified company?” I was speaking with a business associate the other day. We were learning a bit about each other’s companies and he asked me this question. I answered as well as I could, trying to balance the art of diplomacy with frankness. I confessed that we were not, and that while [...]
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