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3 risks with Agile decision making

Daan — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:37:30 +0000

Agile teams are generally cohesive and are empowered and expected to make day-to-day decisions. A large part of empowerment in Agile methods is that the team makes the decisions, not the project manager. However, there are some risks involved with this type of decision making. In this article I describe some possible risks. Group think [...]

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It’s not about the features!

Daan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:47:31 +0000

I believe that any software developing company that wants to have a competitive advantage needs to stop focusing on just building features, but instead focus on the users.

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Scrum Burndown plugin 1.9.2 released!

Daan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:15:08 +0000

A new version of the Scrum Burndown plugin for Trac is released, bringing a bug fix and a Python 2.6 egg. This is the last version that will support Trac 0.10. After this version, Trac 0.10 support will be dropped.

New features

There are no new features, this is a bug fix release. A Python 2.6 egg is also available for download.

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Interaction Design and Extreme Programming

Daan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:25:29 +0000

There is a discussion about combining interaction design and extreme programming. Alan Cooper says you should do interaction design before doing anything else. Kent Beck disagrees as he wants to integrate interaction design in the iterations of XP. What is your opinion?

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The right problem

Distributed Scrum: lessons learnt

Daan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:11:12 +0000

A presentation about the lessons learnt while doing distributed Scrum. As we have done distributed Scrum in my previous company, this really interests me. Distributed Scrum has some pitfalls, depending on how you organize your projects and teams.

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Scrum Burndown plugin 1.9.2 released!

Scrum Burndown plugin 1.9.1 released!

Daan — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:52:20 +0000

A new version of the Scrum Burndown plugin for Trac is released, bringing compatibility for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Trac 0.11.2.1, and many bug fixes. Upgrading is recommended.

New features

The Scrum burndown plugin is currently compatible and tested with Trac 0.10.5, Trac 0.11.1, Trac 0.11.2.1 Python 2.4 and Python 2.5. Additional to the previous SQLite compatibility, support for both PostgreSQL 8.3 and MySQL 5 has been added.

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Scrum Burndown plugin 1.9.2 released!

6 reasons to create user interface mockups

Daan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:20:11 +0000

User interface mockups have these benefits when used together with user stories. How do you create better user interfaces?

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User stories are sometimes not enough

Daan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:42:19 +0000

Many teams use user stories to communicate with the customer. They are a very nice way to handle customer requirements without writing large formal requirement documents. However, user stories are not the full solution. They capture intent, but mostly fail to initiate feedback about one of the most important aspects for the user: the user interface.

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Scrum Burndown plugin 1.9 released!

Daan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:14:19 +0000

A new version of the Scrum Burndown plugin for Trac is released, bringing compatibility for Trac 0.11, and some bug fixes.

There are no astonishing new features, this is mainly a compatibility release. The Scrum burndown plugin is currently compatible and tested with Trac 0.10.5, Trac 0.11.1, Python 2.4 and Python 2.5.

Scrum Burndown plugin 1.9.2 released!

The Trac Burndown plugin for Scrum

Daan — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:15:43 +0000

It's official: I am the new maintainer of the Scrum Burndown plugin for Trac!

Update: there is a new version of the Burndown plugin!

From this place, I want to thank Sam Bloomquist for all the work he has done to deliver a great plugin for Trac.