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Sprint Review #37

An agile team is one that continually focuses on doing its best work and delivering the best possible product. In our experience, this involves a ton of discipline, learning, time, experiementation, and working together.[Crispin – Agi…

Gung-Ho Tester

Last Friday, in the “daily”, Cindy handed over a draft of her own doodled sketch about me. I was really surprised and found it brilliant. I promised her to put the sketch into my style cartoon over the weekend and here we go.ThanX. I never met someone …

Analyzing Lenny’s flight paths

We are tracking the routes of animals all over the world. Some birds have already become famous like Lenny the stork whose annual airtrip to Spain and back to his home at Basel Zoo is observed by over 1500 fans. Lenny has a transmitter and everyone can…

Story Points at Coco Beach bar

Consider you asking a waiter how long it takes to deliver the meal and all he says is: “Can’t tell you that, but I can tell you how complex it is to prepare”. That’s what story points are about. I already wrote about story points in the last post but c…

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!