My Life, My Universe, My Everything

Last week I conducted a two day in-house agile/Scrum training in Slovakia.
I enjoyed it very much apart from the few people that clearly didn’t want to be there and thus didn’t make an effort to contribute. One agile principle is to build your project around motivated individuals and trust them to get the job [...]

This is just a thought I want to keep: Investigate differences and similarities of Test Driven Development and Formal Specification. There is also a history of executable specifications – does this mean “tests”? Not sure I mix up a few things right now but I think it is worth to consider it a bit further. [...]

On Monday I changed departments. After three years of working with telecommunications and enter-/infotainment products I thought it is time to move on and learn something different. I will be working as an internal project management consultant. My first major job is to lead the introduction of agile software development in our organisation. I guess, [...]

Despite using Gmail for my personal communication, I have to use Outlook at work. Mostly, I can deal with it pretty well but I still look for some extra productivity through some extra tool support. Today I read about Xobni, an outlook add-in that I will try once I have an invitation. The video on [...]

Last week I attended a seminar about our System Development Method. The course was rather interesting although I was pushing our seminar leader a bit. I feel that my experiences in project management and agile software development added to the seminar although I could have made this less obvious sometimes. I am so used in [...]

VersionOne conducted a global survey to highlight the value teams deliver from Agile development. Survey respondents work in companies of all sizes from small and mid-sized organizations to the largest global corporations. This survey summarizes the state of Agile Development in organizations covering every industry vertical from financial services, health care, and education to video [...]

Cool. Some might have followed the DARPA Grand Challenge last year. Now it will go into the next round by conquering the urban road, as reported in Robot cars will race in real traffic – tech – 03 October 2006 – New Scientist Tech. I find this interesting as we also work on such topics, [...]

I’d be very interested in the results of the study mentioned in the following article: Technology News: Developer: Putting Open Source Development Under the Scope
A bit more from the article:
How are open source software projects able to set their speed and quality on the best participants? That’s simple: “No meetings,” Berkus said.
“I’m serious,” he continued. [...]

Learning from mistakes made by others is always a good idea. However, the article also looks a common reasons for coding mistakes. I found particular interesting the section on “Why do developers make mistakes?” where

Ignorance
Stress
Boredom
Human Frailties

were identified as some reasons.
Dr. Dobb’s | Avoiding the Most Common Software Development Goofs | September 17, 2006

Dr. Dobb’s | Code Inspection Book | September 17, 2006
The book summarizes the results of 2500 reviews of 3.2 million lines of code at Cisco.
“The book refers to a number of studies, some of which are relatively obscure. For instance, did you know that when reading a function developers repeatedly return to look at [...]