Last Friday, I had a chance to facilitate the retrospective of the Scrum team I am part of. We have done retrospectives in the past, yes, but I would say that our understanding and practice is fairly shallow, and will need more time and reflection in order to mature. This retrospective aimed to start doing [...]
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Retrospectives
October 21, 2009
Strike Force sprint planning
October 12, 2009
Today, I had the opportunity to facilitate the sprint planning of our newest team in Orange & Bronze, which we affectionately call “Strike Force”. We recognized that we can be more responsive in dealing with new opportunities that come our way, as well as more deliberate in supporting our long term commitments and initiatives, to [...]
Certified Scrum Master
October 3, 2009
About a month ago, I took the Certified Scrum Master course with Bas Vodde as our trainer. I’ve wanted to take a CSM course when I started reading more on Agile and Scrum but costs were the deal breaker: there were no local courses being offered, and the ones nearest the Philippines were beyond reach [...]
(Really) back to writing code
August 10, 2009
A few weeks back I started work on a new module for my current project. I haven’t done this for quite some time, as I found myself working with other members of the team, so this was really exciting. Fast forward today and we have the core set of the module in production, and are [...]
