Archive for the ‘Methodology’ Category

December 18th, 2009

Blog on Kanban in Action

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Still processing the impressions of DeVoxx 2009 in Antwerp. One of the most interesting sessions for me was the university talk about Kanban in Action by Olav Maassen. He gave a very clear and interactive insight into Kanban. Starting out with the meaning of the word and an example to support this. Kanban mean ‘visual [...]

November 19th, 2009

Craftmanship

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After Ivar was done with his keynote Robert C Martin ‘Uncle Bob’ took Ivar’s talk to the next level. He started his career in ‘69 as a programmer. His experience was that every decade provided new technologies and methodologies. But still developers couldn’t deliver on time and managers keep raising the bar. Concluding he summoned [...]

November 19th, 2009

UML founder

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Ivar ‘Founder of UML/RUP’ Jacobson gave a keynote speech. Very enlighting on the last couple of decades from a methodology perspective.

November 18th, 2009

Scott Ambler book signing

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Scott Ambler just gave a talk on Agile Mythbusters. Very interesting. Now he’s signing books and answers questions.

November 17th, 2009

The Kanban board

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This is what the kanban board looks like.

November 16th, 2009

Day 1 of DeVoxx

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The first day of DeVoxx is here. It kicks off with a university day.
The first session today is a session about Kanban. This is a very refreshing way of looking at doing agile/lean development projects.