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Splitting up test suites at Etsy
Following last weeks post on how Esty manages development and operations they have posted another good blog post. This particular posts talks about how they have divided up their test suit to enable very short deployment times. Here’s the introduction: Lately we’ve been deploying code 25 times a day or more, and running automated tests [...]
How does Etsy manage development and operations
I was browsing Quora [1] over the weekend and came across this post (below). Although it’s not directly related to Agile or Scrum, it’s a fascinating glimpse into how Etsy [2] manage their development and operations: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Etsy-manage-development-and-operations [1] Quora.com is a social question and answer website. It’s similar to other existing Q&A websites like StackExchange. [...]
Join us on Kiva!
Scrumology is now on the charitable micro-lending website Kiva. As part of my courses, we often adopt a tip-jar and decide what to do with the money at the end. I prefer to make a donate to a local charity and some recipients have been the Cancer Society, Beyond blue, Melbourne fire appeal, Christchurch earthquake [...]
The fear of releasing, and a video introduction to Scrum
Four months ago I put up a video introduction to Scrum. It was 13 minutes long, the image was blurry and it was awfully boring. I promised I’d (eventually) replace it, and I’ve finally managed to do so. The new video is sharper and moves at a much quicker place; it’s under 4 minutes long. [...]
Profile of a Scrum Trainer in Numbers.
The Scrum Alliance maintains a wealth of data about it members. This includes information about the activities of the Scrum Trainers. I recently downloaded my data and found that the charts generated from this data created a profile of my activities over the last few years. Here’s a summary of the total number of students [...]
Bas Vodde on Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)
Bas Vodde recently posted a message about a paper that he co-wrote with Craig Larman on Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD). Bas is a Singapore based Certified Scrum Trainer who I’ve worked with on a couple of occasions. He’s an experienced trainer and with an excellent background in software development and large-scale Scrum, so I [...]
The Marshmallow challenge + What you need to be reading this weekend: 09/17/2010
I’ve a special treat for the end-of-week roundup … the Marshmallow Challenge! The Marshmallow Challenge is an experimental game to explore emergent design and team collaboration. The goal is to build the tallest free-standing structure from spaghetti that supports a marshmallow on top. It’s nicely explained in this TED talk by Tom Wujec: And here [...]
Two wonderful videos from RSA
Here are a couple of videos that I’ve been watching recently. Both are talks given at The RSA and animated by Cognitive Media. I’ll start with my favourite which is “The Empathic Civilisation” by Jeremy Rifkin. And, this second video is “Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us” by Dan Pink. More fascinating videos [...]
Software defects in quantitative investment funds
There was an interesting article in the New York Times over the weekend about software defects in quant funds. Quantitative funds (also know as Black Box funds) are investment funds in which investment decisions are determined by elaborate software algorithms. Over the last 10 years investors have put vast sums of money with quant funds [...]
