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Jim “Cope” Coplien is the inventor of Organizational Patterns and author of several books on the subject. Cope currently works as a consultant and is often asked to assist with organizational improvements. Cope is a frequent speaker at conferences and a reoccurring favorite at Øredev. He is a man with strong opinions and I was [...]

In order to embrace the true Christmas spirit, I thought I’d share a few goodies from the Devoxx conference that took place in Antwerp, Belgium in mid December. Devoxx is the former JavaPolis that has changed name due to trademarking issues with Sun. Nonetheless, it’s still the worlds largest independent Java conference, where the 3200 [...]

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. [...]

Swedish readers of IDG.se might have noticed today that there was an article about how the Swedish municipalities are working on a new workflow product, as the current vendors simply doesn’t cut it. Jayway was mentioned as a partner in this development, and since this involves me I thought I would take this opportunity to [...]

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 [...]