Happy New Year
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by martin
We wish all of you a Happy New Year, with lots of love, luck and in good health. Let’s make it a fabulous 2008!
Leontien, Martin and Emmy
Share ThisWe wish all of you a Happy New Year, with lots of love, luck and in good health. Let’s make it a fabulous 2008!
Leontien, Martin and Emmy
Share ThisYesterday evening I had a so-called “Meet and Eat” together with my colleagues. The agenda is simple: everybody comes to the office, we all grab some food (usually pizza or chinese food) and someone gives a presentation on a current subject. Subjects from the past include new versions of the Oracle database, JDeveloper, CDM RuleFrame and Kapow Mashup Server.
This time I gave a presentation on Scrum and why I think Scrum is a major improvement as project management framework for software development projects. The slides of this presentation are available for download (dutch only).
After two hours, many questions and an extra cup of coffee everybody was quite enthusiastic about the whole concept of short iterations, potentially shippable product increments, team commitment and the like.
Technorati: scrum, project management, agile, whitehorses
Share ThisSilence here doesn’t really mean I did nothing (hey, after all, my blog is and never will be that important). In this post a quick overview of the year and a small peek into the future (I borrowed the title of the post from Charles Dickens - it’s almost Christmas anyway).
On a personal level, I have seen Emmy grow from a little baby to a small girl who already walks around the house (a little shaky, but still). Leontien found another employer, Capgemini, where she will be very busy consulting public organizations about their business processes.
Professionally, I became a Prince2 Practitioner. Prince2 is the de-facto standard methodology for project management (founded in the UK, used worldwide). It was a 3-hour essay based exam, but I made it. I also certified myself as a ScrumMaster, which basically means I attended a two day training.
Scrum is a framework for iterative, incremental development in cross-functional, self-managing teams. I’m impressed and kept reading on the subject since (Agile Project Management with Scrum, The Enterprise and Scrum, Agile Estimating and Planning, Lean Software Development). As far as I’m concerned, this is the way to make software. Who needs waterfall anymore?
In the near future, I’ll definitely keep extending my knowledge and skills on Scrum and project management and try to share my findings here every once in a while.
Technorati: agile, prince2, scrum, waterfall, project management
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