Have you ever had too much to do? Did you react by working even harder – like the rest of us? At first, the situation seems to improve and everything looks just fine. However, even though “harder” might lead to “better”, it still is not the same as “good”. Time passes and you keep putting [...]

The panel of Øredev 2009 proved to be a great group of people ready to take the panel format further. As the moderator I wanted something other than your daddy’s discussion – something edgy or just plain edutainment. I certainly got what I asked The folks on the stage were: James Bach – Author of [...]

I’ve just uploaded the slides from the PMI conference in Amsterdam here. Some 150 people turned up for this morning show, a Pecha Kucha with group discussions, about various aspects on Scrum. After some initial wrestling with the audio we got under way. We were four to speak – Juliet Andrew, Gabrielle Benefield, Petri Haapio [...]

So we have a recipy for the team. But this is just not enough. We need to make sure that management and everyone else is on board. The second part of the Scrum Shock Therapy presents a bootstrapping recipe on how you can do this. The first part of this series can be found here: [...]

The Øredev conference was a real success. I’m involved in it ,so that probably makes me biased:-). However, I struggled for the first 10 minutes of my presentation to get my slides on the projector. A tip for you Mac users out there: Plug the adapter (dmi to vga) into the VGA cable first! I [...]

Just a quick note on Scrum Shock Therapy. I will give a session on this subject at the Øredev conference on Tuesday at around 10 o’clock. If you can make it I will talk about the whole shebang – recipes for the team, management and organisation. I’d love to get your feedback. See you in [...]

Scrum consists of a straightforward process, half a bunch of roles and a few artifacts. Sounds simple enough, but according to an online poll 3 out of 4 projects that call themselves Scrum fail to implement even the simplest parts. To make matters worse, most of the mistakes are on the simple side of things. [...]

Jeff Sutherland has piercing blue eyes – friendly, but probing – and a frequent smile. They are a bit like a distant uncle who wants to know what you have made of yourself. After several CTO assignments at various companies, Jeff Sutherland found himself at Easel corporation where he created Scrum together with Ken Schwaber. [...]

I am in search of an empty room at the Øredev conference. Normally this is an easy task, but I’ve got Martin Fowler on my tail. My mind is still blank. What on earth can I ask him that he hasn’t already written himself? Finally, an empty room, well almost. Another speaker, Erik Dörnenburg, is [...]

Neo is a network-oriented database for semi-structured information. Too complicated, let us try again. Neo handles data in networks – nodes, relationships and properties – instead of tables. This means entirely new solutions for data that is diffi cult to handle in static tables. It could mean we can go agile all the way into [...]

JavaOne 2006 might be only a few months old, but a summer feels a like lot longer than that. What were the trends and are they still hot? JavaOne conferences seem to come in three different flavours – announcement, middle and final. Several “new” technologies made their finale this year; a graduation year. EJB 3, [...]

The Javaforum Malmö (re)opened at Jayway’s new office at Malmö one afternoon in March. The meeting set a new record for that conference room and filled it with ease. Some forty people checked in for this, the first Javaforum event in Malmö for several years. The audience was a mo- saic of around fifteen companies. [...]

I just had to be there. My friend was starting out anew. A fresh idea, a start up – I was hoping it was going to be good. I was not disappointed. I could smell it straight away when I en- tered the small office – the fresh and raw scent of newly cut code. [...]

Bert Rubaszkin is the Chief Technologist, CTO to us mere programmers, for Sun Sweden. He is often quoted in such computer mags as Computer Sweden. Questions cover a lot of ground, from Sun servers being tossed from tall buildings to the future of some new Sun technology. Bert comes across as the wise ol’ programmer [...]

Jonas is still standing when I meet him at the Öredev conference to discuss an interview. Even though a cold is doing its best to bring him to his knees. He still has a ‘roundthe-globe’ trip to Tokyo to do and the following sprint to reach JavaOne in Japan another one of those Swedes going [...]