Q&A with Andy Hunt on Pragmatic Thinking & Learning

Monday, April 20th, 2009

An fun privilege for me as a Softhouse employee was the opportunity to make a short interview with Andy Hunt, of Pragmatic Programmer fame,  about his latest book Pragmatic Thinking & Learning and the Øresund Agile workshop with the same title.

Øresund Agile 2009 web site is now open!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

I'm not sure if I can make it to Øresund Agile 2009 on May 12-14, but I sure would like to participate in Pragmatic Programmer Andy Hunt's workshop on Pragmatic Thinking and Learning! I'm close to the end of my first reading of the book with the same title.

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?  

Nordic Agile in Stockholm on December 1-4

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Øresund Agile goes Nordic Agile! Scrum for team members is a workshop directed to the developers and testers in an agile team,, an obviously very important component in an agile project but maybe not so much the primary target for conferences and the like. I liked Jim Coplien's Agile Architecture session on ...

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, ...

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.