Reality Loop

August 17, 2010
Self enabling teams: a demonstration.

One of the most impressive memories from my Certified Scrum Master course last year, is the experience of growing a self enabling team.The exercise was simple:Given was a bucket full of tennis balls.The team was about 20 people. Only one team memb...
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August 15, 2010
Quotes of the Week

Learning from mistakes is overrated! -Rework If we could only learn the right lessons from the successes of the past, we would not need to learn from the failures. - Tony Hoare Code that runs on first write is an idea from the...
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July 28, 2010
Retrospective: Rework & The Goal - My vacation books

I read two "non-programming" books during my vacation: Rework: This is an easy read. The book consists of a collection of short essays that aim at giving advice for how to make your work more successful, relevant and effective. The essa...
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July 26, 2010
Recommendation for jQuery in Action

The quote from my jQuery in Action review found its way to the back cover of the book: As you can guess from the quote, I can fully recommend the book. It is an interesting read and a well designed coverage of jQuery and its usage.
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July 06, 2010
When is Scrum successful?

@EricMinio asked an interesting question last week in his Scrum in Depth course. It really made me rethink my understanding of Scrum. A company is not able to deliver its software projects, but does not know why. You introduce Scrum. After 3 sprin...
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