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InfoQ recently featured an interview with Joseph Pelrine. Joseph has done a good deal to facilitate my journey into Agile and Scrum and for this I am very grateful. He trained me on Australia's first Certified ScrumMaster course in February 2005 and I have been lucky enough to have trained and worked with him on other occassions since then. Joseph ...

It seems to me that over the years, organisations have responded to both the increasing complexity of projects and their dismal success rate by heaping on: more processes and tools,loads of documentation,tighter and tighter contracts, anddetailed plans from start to end......in short, everything on the right-hand side of the Agile Manifesto. To ...

Conchango are exhibiting at TestExpo on Thursday 10th April.   It is being held at: Congress Centre 23-28 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS.   Doors open at 9.00am and you will find us on Stand number 18.   Tickets are free so hurry up and apply before they are all gone!  You can apply at ...

David Armano, from Logic and Emotion, spoke on the first day of Mix08. It's a new presentation from him 'From the long tail to the fuzzy tail'. It's not really related to the long tail, it's about his theories about how mixed teams should fit together and that we are all becoming 'sun-shaped people'; 'T-shaped people' and so on (which there's a ...

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 of the technologies to include those that I’ve used over the last 12 months and have also added ...

  Doing Agile across distributed locations around the globe makes it harder, but not impossible. It puts strain on the Agile principles, we have to work hard to make sure that the focus remains on delivering value to the customer.  It is very easy for the complexity of the situation to stop us dead in our tracks. There are a number of ...

Thanks to everyone who attended the Alt.Net.UK Conference this weekend and making the UK's 1st one a great success.  A special thank to the 3 Organisers: Ian Cooper, Alan Dean and Ben Hall, massive thanks guys for arranging it, and also to Sam Mullaly and Danni Taylor who work in the Conchango recruitment team with me for making ...

Tonight sees the start of Alt.Net.UK Conference as hosted by Conchango.  People are expected from 6pm tonight for an agenda planning session follow by a visit to our local watering hole, Bankside. The conference starts at 9:30am tomorrow, with doors opening at 9am, and will continue through to 5:30pm. To those who are coming ...

I have recently observed Sprint Planning meetings where tasks are either being selected or assigned to individuals within the team at the start of the Sprint.  Apparently this is not an isolated event, but aren’t Scrum teams supposed to be self managing, aren’t team members supposed to pick up whatever task will most help the team ...

The 1st round went quickly for the Alt.Net.UK conference and we are expecting the same with the 2nd so if you have not already registered you need to asap. Friday 1st February @ 6pm - Conchango's London office for a social/conference planning event followed by drinks at Bankside from 7:30/8pm Saturday 2nd February @ ...