Hire me for my mind!

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Ward Cunningham tweeted a link to an ad for an Agile Ruby Developer at AboutUs, Inc. Out of curiosity I took a look and it sounds like a fantastic opportunity for someone! What I liked most about the job ad was the last part: We’re hiring you for your mind. Please showcase ...

Nordic Agile starts tomorrow

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Nordic Agile starts tomorrow. Maybe there are a few seats left if you haven't registered already?  

Øresund Agile 2008 Conference Day

Monday, June 16th, 2008

(Continued from Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008.) After two days of workshops, Wednesday was the conference day. Two sessions specifically addressed distributed Scrum: having teams, or part of teams, in different geographic locations. The presentation by Scrum co-creator Jeff Sutherland was great but also a bit utopian while the other, ...

Accelerated Agile on Øresund Agile 2008

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Yesterday I participated in the Accelerated Agile workshop at Øresund Agile 2008. It was attended by both developers and non-developers. Some parts of the workshop were common for the two groups and others were separate.  Me and another developer actually did both TDD and pair programming! BestBrains, the company that ...

Agile Architecture on Øresund Agile 2008

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Today, on the first day of Øresund Agile 2008, I attended the Agile Architecture workshop held by Jim Coplien. He is a really great speaker! Some things that stuck in my head: Don't use TDD, it destroys architecture because it makes the programmer focus on individual methods, ...

ThoughtWorks opens Swedish office in June

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

I can't help keeping an eye on ThoughtWorks so here comes a followup on I read that ThoughtWorks is looking at Sweden: According to Ola Bini's ThoughtWorks comes to Sweden and Marcus Ahnve's Joining ThoughtWorks, Starting Office in Stockholm they will be the ones manning the ThoughtWorks Swedish office that opens ...

The Scandinavian SCM day on May 28th, 2008

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

From the Scandinavian SCM day web page: The Scandinavian SCM day is an opportunity for people from academia and industry with a passion for Software Configuration Management to get together once a year to discuss SCM, exchange ideas and share problems. The reason I tag this post with "Agile" and "Scrum" is ...

Øresund Agile 2008 conference program available

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

As promised, the conference program for Øresund Agile 2008 is now available. Both the workshops and the talks seem really great! See you June 9–11!

Unboxing the Softhouse Scrum Master Kit

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

I promised to show the Softhouse Scrum Master Kit and now I have selected a few images. Either browse the slideshow or read more below!

Øresund Agile 2008 teaser

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Click to enlarge: The Øresund Agile 2008 conference runs 9-11 juni in Malmö, Sweden. Full conference program will be available on March 15.