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Freitag, 12. März 2010 - 14:13 Uhr
The Waterfall Manifesto
I found a funny web site: The waterfallmaifesto.
Some extracts out of the manifesto 
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.... At regular intervals, the team should meet to eat pizzas and drink beer. It helps developers to forget that they are working in a bloody software development project and confirms that the management really cares about people. (they do not mention pizzas and beers in the other manifesto, think about it...)
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After participating in and observing many software development projects in recent years, we have reached the sad conclusion that there will never be better ways of developing software on this planet. While the principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development may look appealing for inexperienced developers, serious professionals know that the real world is not similar to the "Little House on the Prairie"
Our experience has taught us to value:
* Processes and tools over individuals and interactions
* Comprehensive documentation over quality software
* Contract negotiation over customer collaboration
* Following THE initial plan over responding to change
That is, while you could be very lucky to work in a project with the items on the right (intelligent developers and customers working together, what are these agilists smoking?!?), you will never be fired for applying items on the left (or if you are, this is very unlucky or because you didn't choose IBM).
The whole manifesto is here: http://www.waterfallmanifesto.org/
Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 - 16:44 Uhr
PSM or CSM
There are now two possibilities to get a certification for a Scrum Master. One at Scrum.org (Ken Schwabers initiative and the other one from Scrum Alliance). An interesting development indeed. One is named “Professional Scrum Master” the other “Certified Scrum Master”. I like the idea of Scrum.org not necessarily visit a Scrum-Certification course to get certified. (Even if it helps).But in the last years I had the impression that it’s more and more a business model to be a Certified Scrum Trainer and make a lot of money with such courses, than to help people to understand Scrum.
On the one hand it is a good thing to have the choice to take a certification course or to try the online assessment without a certification course. On the other hand I’m sure this is going to be confusing for a lot of people. “Shall I become a CSM or a PSM???
Mittwoch, 3. März 2010 - 12:50 Uhr
Why is Scrum easy
- easy to understand
- easy to learn
- sometimes easy to implement
- mostly easy to get good results
- not always so easy to convince the uper managment
and the best thing it makes fun and its cool
