http://www.andybrandt.net A stream in the sea... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:16:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ken Schwaber announced a new certification program, the Professional Scrum Master, and blogs/discussion groups are now full of posts about Scrum, Scrum Alliance and Ken. Some of the discussion is highly political and I feel some prospective from outside of the "club" is really due. Seen from where I live ... http://www.andybrandt.net/588/scrum-politics-as-seen-from-afar Someone has sent me a link to a quite emotional but interesting article by Tim Bray on why the world of enterprise systems delivers so many failed projects and sucky software while the world of web startups excels at producing great software fast. Tim makes some very valid points about ... http://www.andybrandt.net/576/overcomplexity As agile software developers providing outsourcing services we are frequently asked to sign different NDAs and MNDAs. After over two years and dozens of NDAs I noticed a certain pattern which I will call "The Law of NDAs". It goes like this: "The originality and value of the idea protected by ... http://www.andybrandt.net/546/brandts-law-of-ndas David Harvey wrote a piece on his blog entitled "The Scrum picture is wrong" where he says that the well known, canonical even, picture of Scrum loops errs by focusing too much on the product (deliverable, "potentially shippable product increment") and forgetting that continuous improvement of the team is another ... http://www.andybrandt.net/533/scrum-picture-is-quite-right Departing from my usual topics I want to share an observation on the big picture that we are being fed by politicians, mainstream media and most of the Internet. This big picture is - in short - that we humans are damaging the planet Earth, causing catastrophic global warming ... http://www.andybrandt.net/394/short-sight