Reality Loop

January 26, 2010
Scrum Master Certification in Zürich with Mitch Lacey

February 8. and 9. Mitch Lacey is running his Scrum Master Certification course in Zürich Switzerland. If you are thinking about getting the Scrum Master Certification, I can fully recommend Mitch's course. I did attend his course in Vienna la...
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January 07, 2010
The risk of scrum

Last month Ralph Jocham gave a talk about the Risks of Scrum. He published the slides on slideshare: Ralph Jocham The Risks Of Scrum. As far as I understood it, Ralph identified two Risks with Scrum: Not doing it right or not practicing it...
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January 04, 2010
Testing Backlash: Recent, well grounded opinions questioning the value of TDD and unit-testing

It is 2010. I declare that #TDD is no longer controversial. Uncle Bob Martin on Twitter We all know the Gartner Hype Cycle for technology adaption: Sometimes I wonder where on this curve we are concerning unit-testing and Test Driven Develo...
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December 31, 2009
Computer Science vs. Software Engineering

I listened to SE-Radio Episode 149: Difference between Software Engineering and Computer Science with Chuck Connell. Interesting stuff... The most insightful thing was that historically we put too much unrelated things into the same bucket: ...
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December 30, 2009
Bug Driven Development: Samurai Debugging Reinvented

In his presentation about Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Domain Driven Design (DDD), Dan North talks about another interpretation of "BDD": Bug Driven Development or "DDD": Defect Driven Development. It goes like this: The customer co...
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