Jeff Sutherland Talks Shock Therapy for SCRUM

On March 5, I attended a presentation by Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, on Shock Therapy for Scrum.
Scrum Butt
Shock Therapy was introduced because most teams that think they are doing Scrum are actually only doing Scrum Butt – “We are doing Scrum, but we don’t do all of Scrum for some reason or another”. Perhaps [...]

Smart = Agile++ by Ivar Jacobson

One of the most entertaining talks I went to was the Be smart! by Ivar Jacobson. Although the concepts that he presented were definitely not new, he found a very clear and entertaining way to present them. A RUP guy, he told it how it is – about what I consider to be agile – [...]

Devoxx 2008 Highlights: RIA, Concurrency, Scripting Languages, and Working Smart!

At Devoxx 2008 I got to hear about new stuff and meet new people – everything I expected from the biggest independent Java conference in the world. From what I hear, it is a conference with more stuff and less fluff – even said by Sun employees in comparison with JavaOne. It is big enough [...]