Reality Loop

September 17, 2013
Paradise Lost: SAFe banned from the Agile Heaven?

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) recently seems to have fallen from grace in the agile community. Most of us noticed that something went wrong with Agile. The Scaled Agile Framework now gets stigmatized into the role of the traitor of the True A...
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September 14, 2013
/ch/open Workshop Tage: JavaScript Bootcamp for Java Developers

Last week Marc and I held a workshop at the /ch/open Workshoptage: JavaScript for Real Developers: A Survival-Bootcamp The goal of the full-day workshop was to give typical Java enterprise developers an overview over the current landscape and e...
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August 20, 2013
JBoss Remote EJB Invocation: An Unexpected Journey

The amount of complexity I'm willing to tolerate is proportional to the size of the problem being solved. There will come a point where the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one. - R...
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July 18, 2013
Something went wrong with Scrum: Analogies with the Underpant Gnomes and Sovjet Era Deathmarches

Story card hell is when you have 300 story cards and you have to keep track of them all. [...]Every customer I've ever worked with wanted to put story cards in a database. That misses the point of story cards. If you're worried about losing stor...
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July 12, 2013
New Features in Myco for iPhone

This week I released Myco 1.0.4 for the iPhone. Since the first release of the App we added some new features: First of all the Standard and Pro editions now feature 205 mushrooms in the library: Mushrooms are now also attributed with region...
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