http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress Weblog dedicated to lean and agile sofware development Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:58:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I bought some lean&agile  books to read during my summer holiday. The list is not complete because I have already read quite many of them. I got Mike Cohn's new Scrum book freely from the publisher. Thanks about that. "Scaling Lean and Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2010/07/new-lean-and-agile-books/ A short history of waterfall As experienced people remember the eve of software development was agile. Waterfall emerged because the prevailing management thinking embraced it. There was a quest for more rigor and predictability and we started to talk about software engineering which would improve our quality and productivity. More planning ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2010/05/origin-of-waterfall/ My colleague at Tieturi, Arto Santala, has written a series of three blog entries about unit testing in EJB 3 environment. It is in Finnish but you might get the point through the code examples without our language. As an idea unit testing has been known and used for decades ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2010/02/unit-testing-ejb-3/ Innovation is not just brainstorming with fancy techniques. Truly new business ideas need well grown skill, deep motivation to struggle through all the forthcoming difficulties and courage to put enough effort to make it successful. A stereotype of an inventor is a mad man who works to create a perpetual motion ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2010/02/innovation-requires-skill-motivation-and-courage/ I wish you merry Christmas and happy new year :-) It has been surprisingly strong upturn after the economic downturn in 2009. I have  been running CSM trainings one after another - the public ones are just a peak of the iceberg. Based on the statistics this blog is not dead though ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2009/12/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/ I found a revealing discussion at a popular suomi24.fi-site titled Ketterä IT-helvetti (agile IT hell ). It is amazing how often daily Scrum is practiced just opposite of Scrum's basic idea of a self-organizing team. This 15 minutes is just for the developers to say hello to each other and ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2009/11/command-and-control-with-pair-programming/ Agile software development has often seen as an foreign element leading to chaos in Virginia Satir's model. Current situation of Scrum is indeed somehow chaotic. Key persons are arguing against each other and it has been very demanding to define what Scrum actually is? Ken Schwaber's ScrumGuide is our current ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2009/10/less-extreme-scrum/ I am taking part to Scrum gathering this week. This is fully booked though the economy is down. The talks that I have heard so far are encouraging and enjoyable. I am here to see friends and to hear their stories and experiences. There are many issues that I should ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2009/10/scrum-gathering-munich/ Scrum is simple and hard. So is losing weigth for the majority of people. The secret of losing weight is that you eat less. That is that simple, but doing it is hard. We can apply empirical process control to control one's weight. Let's have a daily weighting every morning to ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2009/10/losing-weight-with-scrum/ Work is continuing behind the scenes. August 2009 was surprisingly busy to me and to my customers. Nordea bank announced today that the economic downturn is over. This is something that the stock prices have predicted about a half a year. To those of you who are not familiar with ... http://leandeveloper.com/wordpress/2009/09/september-2009/