Cage Fight: Electronic VS Physical Boards

Every time I join a team that is physically co-located I propose to use a big-ass-board to track work and visualizes stuff. Usually, there are a couple of questions around these boards and I point people to different blog posts which I collected on my Brain Noise Blog http://gfader.tumblr.com/tagged/taskBoard.

This time I got 5 great reasons for using an electronic task board, that I want to answer here.

Cage fight!!!
Physical Boards VS Electronic Boards

Figure: Physical VS Electronic Boards - Thanks, Google Image Search

Peter, I think these are 5 advantages of an electronic task board. What do you think?

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How do you apply changes to your codebase? When should we merge the JoeBranch?

At our yearly 1 week Zühlke web camp a couple of us took the opportunity to share experiences with branching and release techniques.

TL DR;

• Focus on Continuous Integration
• Every change that you have locally is a branch (a code version that is different than main)
• Every kind of branching delays Continuous Integration
• Only a healthy code base with a “green” Build + Automated Tests let you sleep like a baby at night.

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The Agile Manifesto 3.0

This is the 1st principle of the Agile Manifesto from the year 2001 that you can find on http://agilemanifesto.org/

Figure: First principle of the Agile Manifesto from 2001

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Use Scrum + Continuous Delivery to build the right thing

Figure: How and how often do you get feedback?  flickr
The two topics “Scrum” and “Continuous Delivery” kept me very excited in the last years, which resulted in two presentations and a whitepaper for scrum.org.

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Lean, Agile, Scrum Zurich conference slides

The Lean Agile Scrum conference 2012 is history.
This conference was a blast. All the discussions after and between the talks were superb, and getting to meet new people is always AWESOME (until a shark and a gorilla high-five each other in front of a en explosion –> Thanks Joe)

2 quick impressions from the conference

Figure: The pictures are so blurry because I was so excited to give a session later

My little contribution to this conference aka slides on SlideShare

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Conferences to attend this year - I love lists

I love lists!
Or as my girlfriend says to me: "Don't you have a list for that?"

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