http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/ en-us 2007-06-05T04:08:37-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2007/06/scrumgathering_1.html The last ScrumGathering was held in Portland, OR, May 7-11. On Tuesday, Mike Cohn and I taught a course centered around a series of case studies. Wednesday and Thursday were Open Space sessions. The overall site for the Gathering is... Extreme Programming wwake 2007-06-05T04:08:37-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2007/05/stories_for_sid_1.html William Pietri provided a list of the user stories his team used in creating sidereel.com.... Extreme Programming wwake 2007-05-10T07:21:18-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2007/03/schools_of_soft.html I ran across an interesting talk by Brett Pettichord: "Schools of Software Testing": http://www.io.com/%7Ewazmo/papers/four_schools.pdf... Extreme Programming wwake 2007-03-22T17:34:55-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2007/03/cfp_tabletop_20.html Call For Participation The Second IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer System (Tabletop2007) Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 10-12, 2007. Held in conjunction with ACM UIST 2007 http://www.ieeetabletop2007.org/ Supported by IEEE The use of the tabletop as an input/output... Extreme Programming wwake 2007-03-06T18:04:50-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2007/03/project_portfol.html Project management from a portfolio or stage-gate perspective (including how agile development fits in): "Rockets, Cars and Gardens: Visualizing waterfall, agile and stage gate."... Extreme Programming wwake 2007-03-05T05:14:04-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2007/01/leadership_read.html Tom Mellor, Alan Shalloway, Bob Schatz, and I put together a reading list on leadership, available on the ScrumAlliance web site.... Extreme Programming wwake 2007-01-30T16:59:00-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2006/12/using_actuals_w.html I work with a group that's been estimating in pair hours for a while. We'll describe a story, everybody will write their estimate on a card, somebody collects the estimates, and we make an overall estimate. (The tricky part is... Extreme Programming wwake 2006-12-15T04:48:36-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2006/12/setbased_concur.html Just a pointer to an article I created, exploring lean product development and how set-based concurrent engineering relates to software.... Extreme Programming wwake 2006-12-03T19:54:29-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2006/11/scrumgathering.html The fall ScrumGathering is in Minneapolis, MN, this week. I'm here for the two-day open space and the trainer's meeting. Groups are using http://scrumalliance.pbwiki.com as the conference proceedings. I'll refer to those articles rather than repeat them here. Product Owner... Extreme Programming wwake 2006-11-16T19:06:45-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2006/11/alistair_cockbu.html "Two Case Studies Motivating Efficiency as a "Spendable" Quantity", by Alistair Cockburn. A bottleneck limits the rate of production of a system. Clearly we want to improve its performance. But what should we do about non-bottlenecks? Alistair discusses several strategies,... Extreme Programming wwake 2006-11-11T06:46:39-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2006/11/ieee_software_i.html IEEE Software is going to have a special issue on test-driven development. Here's the call for papers: www.computer.org/portal/pages/software/content/cfp-May07_TDD.html Papers are due by December 1, 2006; the issue will appear in May/June 2007.... Extreme Programming wwake 2006-11-02T08:37:14-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2006/10/nasaga_06_confe_3.html Keynote: Spontaneous Brilliance, by Kat Koppett Kat described aspects of improv, and how it can be used to create an environment where brilliance emerges. The first rule - celebrating failure. "Exercise the courage muscle - our willingness to be creative... Games wwake 2006-10-14T23:02:35-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2006/10/nasaga_06_confe_2.html I know I said "day 3 of 4", but I actually need to add a couple more things about day 2. In addition to his keynote speech, Bernie DeKoven was recognized for his contributions with the Ifill-Reynolds Award, which NASAGA... Games wwake 2006-10-14T07:15:55-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2006/10/nasaga_06_confe_1.html NASAGA conference Keynote: From Flint to Fireworks, by Dave Chalk Dave Chalk described his own learning disabilities, and yet he became Air Canada's youngest pilot. "Passion comes from pain." "Adults today believe they can't learn." "Today, apprenticeship is far too... wwake 2006-10-14T00:16:27-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wwake/archive/2006/10/nasaga_06_confe.html NASAGA - the North American Simulation and Games Association - is a group consisting mostly of trainers and facilitators who use games and simulations in their training. They're having their conference in Vancouver BC this week - and it's lovely... Games wwake 2006-10-13T23:49:56-08:00