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Implementation Patterns of User-Centered Design, Development and Agile

Last Friday Malcolm Beaton started a thread on our internal User Experience and Agile Community mailing lists - on how User-Centered Design and Agile can work together and any friction that may occur. Simon Bennett , one of our Agile Coaches , made a Read More...

Posted 05 February 2009 22:54 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Musings, Development, UCD

Continuous Education++

While catching up on long overdue flagged posts to read - I spotted a familiar meme on becoming a better developer – I wrote about Continuous Education almost 2 years and it’s nice to see that this topic keeps reappearing. I’ve updated my bubble graph Read More...

Posted 05 March 2008 12:36 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum, .NET, Musings, Books, Development, Continuous Education

Agile Architecture: Painting by Numbers

During one of the Open Space sessions I attended at the Scrum Gathering in 2006 I put forward the analogy of "Painting by Numbers" Architecture, which is my take on how Architecture should be handled on an Agile project. The basic premise is Read More...

Posted 05 June 2007 15:41 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum

Scrum for Team System 1.2 released

After an immense amount of hard work from Stuart , Colin and Merrick a new version of Scrum for Team System has been released. Version 1.2 of Scrum for Team System contains a number of changes: Reports Significant performance improvements compared to Read More...

Posted 11 March 2007 23:27 by howard.vanrooijen | 5 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Scrum for Team System

Agile Business Conference 2006

The Agile Business Conference is running this week (from the 7th – 9th of November) at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London; Conchango is one of the Event’s “ Platinum Sponsors ”; Colin Bird (Conchango’s CTO) Read More...

Posted 06 November 2006 13:59 by howard.vanrooijen | 1 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Events

CSM / Agile User Stories Applied / Agile Estimation and Planning courses

After the success of the courses we ran in July, we're running them again this September. I was fortunate enough to attend both the User Stories and Agile Estimation and Planning sessions (I'm already a CSM) and found that they resolved a lot Read More...

Posted 20 August 2006 21:18 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum

Continuous Education - what will you learn in the next 12 months?

Last Community Day I did a short presentation to the Conchango .NET Development Community about all the .NET projects that we’re currently working on and some of the Web 2.0 / Windows Vista / .NET Framework 3.0 initiatives we’re involved with; we’re really Read More...

Posted 23 June 2006 17:00 by howard.vanrooijen | 6 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum, .NET, Musings

Certified Scrum Master training with Mike Cohn, London, 4/5 July

We’re running a two day CSM course in London on the 4/5 July, taught by Mike Cohn - author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development and Agile Estimating and Planning (he's also running courses based on these two books - but I'm afraid they're Read More...

Posted 13 June 2006 21:00 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum

"Conchango Leads In The Field Of European Web Design Agencies"

I know this has already been trumpeted elsewhere on the Conchango blogs - but I thought it needed saying again. The research and analysis company Forrester assessed 16 different design companies (including AKQA (who designed the Xbox 360 user interface), Read More...

Posted 21 May 2006 19:46 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments

Filed under: Agile, .NET, Musings

Scrum for Team System v1.0 - available to download for free

The idea for Scrum for Team System happened while Rob Grigg and I were at the Team System TAP in Redmond, in September 2004. I had just finished my first major project using Scrum and was fully possessed with the zeal of the newly converted. At that point Read More...

Posted 27 March 2006 09:25 by howard.vanrooijen | 4 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Scrum for Team System

Microsoft Insight Confrence 2006

I’m co-presenting a session at the Microsoft Insight Conference 2006 with Simon Evans ; we’re going to be talking about Architecture within an Agile Project (both Simon and I are currently leading Scrum projects). Expect some information about Engineering Read More...

Posted 13 March 2006 18:00 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments

Filed under: Agile, .NET

Scrum for Team System: Beta 3 "Done"

Today marks the end of Sprint 6 of development for " Scrum for Team System ". This release is targeted against Team Foundation Server Release Candidate - it will not work on any previous version of Team Foundation Server. We've spent a lot of time improving Read More...

Posted 06 March 2006 20:38 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System, Tools, Scrum for Team System

Waterfall 2006 Conference

Mike Cohn posted this to the Scrum Development Group this morning: FYI-- In choosing what conferences to attend this year you may want to consider Waterfall 2006. Its website is at http://www.waterfall2006.com/ Planned speakers include many of the popular Read More...

Posted 27 January 2006 15:08 by howard.vanrooijen | (Comments Off)

Filed under: Agile, Scrum

Scrum FAQ Podcast Transcript: available for download

After I released the Agile Software Development with Scrum Podcast Series I found a referral from a post by Bernie Thompson saying that he really enjoyed the podcasts but would like a community effort to transcribe them. I always intended the FAQ to be Read More...

Posted 05 January 2006 09:09 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Podcast

Scrum Plug-in: Sprint 3 "Done"

Today marks the end of the 3rd Sprint of development on the Scrum Plug-In for Visual Studio Team System. We're working towards getting a new release (Beta 2) out sometime on Monday. We've spent a lot of the past month improving the installer (see Stuart's Read More...

Posted 09 December 2005 21:35 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments

Filed under: Agile, Scrum, Team System, Scrum for Team System

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Howard van Rooijen's Blog

Agile (RSS)

Implementation Patterns of User-Centered Design, Development and Agile

Continuous Education++

Agile Architecture: Painting by Numbers

Scrum for Team System 1.2 released

Agile Business Conference 2006

CSM / Agile User Stories Applied / Agile Estimation and Planning courses

Continuous Education - what will you learn in the next 12 months?

Certified Scrum Master training with Mike Cohn, London, 4/5 July

"Conchango Leads In The Field Of European Web Design Agencies"

Scrum for Team System v1.0 - available to download for free

Microsoft Insight Confrence 2006

Scrum for Team System: Beta 3 "Done"

Waterfall 2006 Conference

Scrum FAQ Podcast Transcript: available for download

Scrum Plug-in: Sprint 3 "Done"

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