Entries from January 2007
Air Ambulance
Originally uploaded by sjroberts.
An ADAC air ambulance lands in a very tight spot in Lichtenrade, Berlin. The helicopter is only just visible in this spur of the moment shot.
As a casual observer, I’m often impressed by the daring of the ADAC helicopter crews.
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Tags: Berlin
Ismaning
Originally uploaded by sjroberts.
A wonderfully sunny snowy morning in Ismaning near Munich.
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Tags: Munich
We’ve translated Mike Cohn’s re-distributable “Introduction to Scrum” into German. You can get it here. It’s licensed using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Please let us know if you make improvements.
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Tags: Agile
Planning Poker
Originally uploaded by sjroberts.
The estimates are starting to converge but there are still some significant differences. The participants are discussing the high and low estimates.
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Tags: Agile · Munich
John-Locke Boyz
Originally uploaded by sjroberts.
Seen at a skateboard park in Lichtenrade Berlin. Unfortunately, the John-Locke Boyz in question are not necessarily fans of John Locke, the 17th century English philosopher but are residents of John-Locke Strasse (which is named after the philosopher).
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Tags: Berlin
Peter Gutmann: “The sheer obnoxiousness of Vista’s content protection may end up being the biggest incentive to piracy yet created.”
Peter Gutmann’s article on Windows Vista’s DRM doesn’t pull any punches and is well worth reading. Peter is a computer science lecturer at Auckland University, New Zealand.
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Tags: Miscellaneous
It’s the end of the first week with a new client in Munich. Despite the storm on Thursday (didn’t impact Munich too much apart from the S-Bahn being suspended from 20:00 on Thursday night) we’ve made some great progress.
I’ve tried to do a lot of listening this week and have taken part in several meetings [...]
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Tags: Agile · Munich
January 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments
Seth’s Blog: “Swedish maxim:
There is no bad weather, just bad clothing.”
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Tags: Miscellaneous
Monday was the first full day with my new customer in Munich. I’m going to be here on and off for the next 5 to 6 months helping a part of a large organisation transition to agile methods. It’s looking really interesting. Although this is going to be a challenging assignment (most agile transitions are!), [...]
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Tags: Agile · Munich
I’m moving to a new blogging platform (Wordpress) and domain (simonroberts.de). Barring something unforeseen, this will be my last post using Radio Userland. I’m hoping that simonroberts.de will be my virtual home for many years.
Radio has served me well over the last couple years but it’s time to move on. The main reasons that I’m [...]
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Tags: Miscellaneous