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Building successful R&D lecture
Yesterday ended with a networking party at the business center. The music was not too-loud for people to talk, and the space was divided to many areas to allow easy flow and interaction. The partners stands were grouped together at the center of the hall, something I view as a miss (should have been positioned around the walls). After almost not sleeping for 3 days during the Startup Weekend I gave up at around 11pm and went to my room. I'm currently at Yoram Yaacobi's talk about "Building...
Scrum in Microsoft Israel?
האם במייקרוסופט ישראל עובדים עם Scrum? צפיתי ב ווידאו של ערן יריב , מנהל בקבוצה ה-Innovation Labs במייקרוסופט ישראל מתוך ה אתר החדש שהקימו לגיוס עובדים, ושמתי לב לציטוט הבא: "אנחנו עובדים בספרינטים קצרים, בסדרי גודל של ארבעה שבועות כל אחד" נשמע מוכר ?
XP and Scrum
In one of the companies I worked at I introduced TDD into the development cycle. This was not done as a part of adopting it as a part of a complete methodology, but as a singular concept. Later, when the company switched to Scrum , we also incorporate ideas like daily build (you don't have to go all the way to continuous integration) and simple designs, but never as partial concepts from the XP methodology. I read Jeremy Miller's post about the combination of Scrum and Extreme programming, and I...
Manage your project with your developers
I have read Udi Dahan's post on letting someone other than developers manage the project, and disagree with him on several points. Udi starts by stating "Developers don’t know how to estimate". He than "backs it up" with the explanation of the fallacy...