Wondering (as a passionate ex-Smalltalker) how I managed to miss the buzz about Seaside!. Are we seeing the resurgence of Smalltalk? # Cooking lunch – pasta with red peppers and mushrooms # With the weekly visit to the supermarket complete it’s “Kaffee & Kuchen” time # Blowing bubbles with the children in the garden #… Continue reading Twitter Updates for 2007-04-14
Twitter Updates for 2007-04-13
The MacBook Pro’s magsafe connector falls out very easily 🙁 # Listening to Keith and The Girl # Listening to End Time by ProjeKct Six from DGM Live Hot Tickles podcast # DRM = Diese Riese Mist # Listening to 320 kbps DRM-free The Good, The Bad & The Queen – excellent sound quality, excellent… Continue reading Twitter Updates for 2007-04-13
Twitter Updates for 2007-04-12
Daily Scrum # Updating Sprint Backlog # Coaching the team on how to create mocks of classes rather than interfaces using EasyMock # Just had lunch – rabbit in a thyme sauce – excellent. # Speeding towards Munich HBF to catch the Intercity Express train to Berlin. # ICE underway on time – I love… Continue reading Twitter Updates for 2007-04-12
Twitter Updates for 2007-04-11
Writing EasyMock examples which demonstrate mocking collaborators with and without interfaces # Downloading Skype Mac 2.6 beta. # Updating the Sprint Backlog. # Installing universal build of Halo on my new MacBook Pro. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Pension room Wi-Fi
I’ve got reasonably fast Wi-Fi in my Pension room in Ismaning, near Munich. 3 Euros a day (excluding room).
Scrum and Lean
As a Scrum coach and practitioner, I find that Scrum itself, backed up by my experience, provides most of the guidance that I need to advise clients during agile transitions. However, sometimes it is useful to look at other flavours of agile. Lean Software Development, which shares a common ancestry with Scrum in that they… Continue reading Scrum and Lean
Fungible
Dictionary.com: “fungible \FUHN-juh-buhl\, adjective: 1. (Law) Freely exchangeable for or replaceable by another of like nature or kind in the satisfaction of an obligation. 2. Interchangeable. noun: 1. Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Usually used in the plural.”
Air Ambulance
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.
Snowy Ismaning
Ismaning Originally uploaded by sjroberts. A wonderfully sunny snowy morning in Ismaning near Munich.
Scrum auf Deutsch
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.