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What bad developers say and what to do about it

I am still alive and I am still blogging, just not here so much ;-)
I blog more on my company Zühlke blog, on my technology tumblr blog Gfader brain noise, and another tumblr about Stop doing Agile - Business Agility - my adventures with organisations that want to improve.

So this is a little traffic generating, SEO link exchanging, cross post:

I talk to a lot of people (if the day is long enough) and so I get them to ask interesting questions like:

“What have you learned recently?”
or
“What is your top 1 goal for 2020?”

These questions and more leads us to interesting conversations about personal development and personal goals that a person has. Being a Scrum.org Trainer, I like to ask people questions especially related to software development so I ask them:

“How well are your teams doing?”

“How do you know?”

“What do you think is the content of the ‘Professional Scrum Developer’ class?“.

Especially to the last question I get this face

No clue
Figure: “No clue” from http://xenaandjonesgiflibrary.tumblr.com/post/42761898144

Read the full blog post on our Zühlke Blog: 5 things bad developers say and what to do about it.

And by the way…

Here are the follow ups:

Are you a Professional?

Figure: What does it mean to be a Professional Scrum Developer?

Combine Scrum and Continuous Delivery to drive Innovation

After publishing the paper on scrum.org here, I wrote a german version for the dotnetpro magazine of January 2013.

Check it out!
And make sure to buy the magazine!

Innovation through Scrum + Continuous Delivery [VIDEO]

Update 2014-11-05: Fixed the video link since the Scrum.org Video Channel moved.

I almost forgot to publish this recording here…

Figure: My talk on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMyhhuQPEow

How often do you release your product to your end users?
How often do your end users see and use your product?
Do you release in sync with your Sprint length, after the Sprint Review?
Is the Sprint Review meeting the only valid release point?
When do you plan your releases?

See how the cadence of Scrum and Continuous Integration can help you build the right thing, and when implemented properly, release it on time to ultimately deliver superior value to your customers.

Efficiency and Effectiveness and some thoughts about it

What caught my attention recently: Efficiency vs. Effectiveness

Figure: Early enough to learn to code efficiently. flickr

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.

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

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?"