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Henrik Kniberg on Scrum

Henrik has published his slides for his upcoming talk at Agile 2009. They represent what I believe to be a concise, entertaining and complete intro to everything you’ve ever wanted to know about scrum. His book ‘Scrum and XP from the trenches‘ is usually the first book everyone reads when they want to know about [...]

The Tool Trap

As a life long fan of technology and one privelaged to work within a high tech industry, it’s easy to get distracted by the shiny…

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Technology is nothing but tools. When you consider that the people who are usually most passionate about technology are the ones in the agile camp, the proliferation [...]

Hero-Driven Development

I feel like I may need to start this post by paraphrasing a song: “You’re so vain, you probably think this post is about you.”  I have had the privilege of working with some remarkable technologists during my career and the danger is that they misinterpret what I’m about to write about. Steve McConnell calls [...]

Orlando Gathering

For those of us not lucky enough to be in Orlando right now, the Open Space findings are being captured at:

http://scrumorlando09.pbwiki.com/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=Orlando

Presentations are also being published to the Scrum Alliance site at:

http://www.scrumalliance.org/resources?tag=SG+Spring+2009