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Agile cocktail bar

A funny explanation of scrum terminology with a pinch of salt.Refinement: in a Refinement Meeting, the business analysts introduce the desired features (= user stories), and the developers estimate how much time they will need to build it. If you are…

I am not a robot

Banksy was here

Sotheby’s in London has auctioned off a framed version of Banksy’s iconographic subject “Girl With Balloon” for over 1 million pounds.When the final bid was made, the big surprise came. Suddenly the screen moved down and the picture was destroyed by a …

Birds love BUGS

Here are the stats. I raised 2500 bugs in 12 years, then moved to a company where I raised a thousand bugs in only 19 months.Presuming that a typical year has 252 working days, this gives me rate of 2.5 bugs per day or 12 per week (compared to an avera…

Checking the Cloud

…or “Hi, just wanted to see how my data looks like in the cloud”.and here how the first draft looked like…

Deserting the Antarctic

 Contribution to D. Good luck!

A beautiful Feature

End of holiday season

When developers come back from holidays…

Welcome to Weirdo-Land

I just wanted to draw an oldtimer Porsche Speedster 356 of the Fifties. Usually I am less addicted to sports cars, but this one is an exception. I watched an interesting report by Jay Leno about a 356 replica bulit by JPS Motorsports and since then can…

Baffled sequenceIDs

Sorry folks, Insider. I don’t know how I can better generalize the cartoon so it is also funny for those who haven’t experienced our exciting moments we had with our love-hate relationship-sequence IDs. The counter was reset after each deployment. It r…