Studies* show that certain memories help us learn and remember more effectively. Combine a course with a team building exercise, an appraised movie, and you have something amazing - a training with lasting impact. This is exactly what we wanted to achieve with the first Bosnia Agile organised Scrum.org Product Owner...
Sarajevo Special Scrum.org Product Owner Training
Half-Life of commitments
Half-life is the amount of time required for a quantity to fall to half its value as measured at the beginning of the time period. During private PSF (Profession Scrum Foundation) classes my students create a Change Backlog. The idea of this backlog is to codify the things that need to be changed in order...
The Antibiotics of Software Engineering – Agile Testing
Surgery is not a recent invention, it dates back millennia. Notable Milestones in Surgical History (http://surgery.about.com/od/surgeryinthemedia/a/HistoryOfSurgeryTimeline.htm)6,500 B.C.E. - Skulls found in France show signs of a rudimentary surgery called trepanation, which involves drilling a hole in the skull. 1540 C.E. - English barbers and surgeons unite to form The United Barber-Surgeons...
The 1000 Students Challenge (4)
In May of 2011 I was able to run my first Pay It Forward Scrum Training at the University of Bern in Switzerland. I had blogged about this event here: The 1000 Students Challenge Last week-end I had the third run at the University of Applied Sciences (HS-AlbSig) in Albstadt,...
Cynefin – Making sense of complexity
In my trainings, I’ve been using the Cynfin framework which was developed by Dave Snowden in 1999 while he was working for IBM, for a long time. It really helps to describe the significant distinction between ordered and unorded - when a defined process works and when to use an...
The 1000 students challenge (3)
In May of 2011 I was able to run my first Pay It Forward Scrum Training at the University of Bern in Switzerland. I had blogged about this event here: The 1000 Students Challenge Last week-end I had the second run at the University of Applied Sciences (FHNW) in Brugg...
Non-Functional-Requirements (NFR) and Scrum
I recorded a small webcast to visualize how I like to work with NFR with Scrum!Enjoy,Ralpheffective agile.
Agile Testing Days 2012 – Take Away
Last week I’ve attended the Agile Testing Days 2012 Conference in Potsdam, Germany. It has been a great conference with great talks from various well known thought leaders. I for myself was invited to talk about 'Sprint Backlog in ATDD’.Every conference has its take away the one thing you take...
Enterprise Team Spike
When faced with new technology or other not well understood programming problems we like to implement a spike. What is a spike? I like the definition from http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/spike.htmlCreate spike solutions to figure out answers to tough technical or design problems. A spike solution is a very simple program to explore...