“Perl is born to pattern match.” – I truly believe that this statement is no exaggeration. Perl is solving this problem in an extremely efficient and elegant way. The following short script is showing some examples for regular expressions in Perl. Hopefully I will not be struck by lightning for posting Perl code in our blog that is otherwise dominated by Java .

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Here is the second article about the Norwegian postcard describing the second Vikings law. Here you find the first one.

The second law of Vikings is called “be prepared” and it is not such  obvious in his bullet points about the agility as the first one. Nevertheless it also implies the non refutable evidences of the agility.

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From my last vacation in Norway I have brought a postcard with the reputed “Viking Laws”. I have posted it on my monitor to be remembered.

These days I concentrate myself on learning about agility and I recognized a lot of similarities between agility and the Vikings Law.

Has it been their secret of being able to reach America a long time before Columbus? Let` s have a look… read more…

Many “conventional” project manager are quite offish about Scrum or they even reject it completely. One of the reasons for this behaviour is that they cannot identify with Scrum since there isn’t a role “project manager” in Scrum. Throughout our Meet the Experts – Agility I had the opportunity to talk a bit about this topic with Boris Gloger.

Before, within an open space session Boris had presented his point of view on the role Product Owner. Throughout this presentation I realised that this role has a lot more elements of the conventional project manager role than I thought before. I got the perception that the responsibilities of the conventional project manager became distributed across the roles Product Owner and Scrum Master in a certain way. Having this picture in mind I asked Boris about it and he confirmed my perception. To be exact, he even extended it a bit:
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… by Slobodanka Sersik and Dr. Gerald Schröder

The context of this session is a container management system, which is rather big, speaking about 200 person years effort. The model that was used in order to create the test cases included scenarios, steps, adapters, components, and simulators. read more…

The keynote starts with our dear agile chicken & pigs story. Pigs are the ones who are fully commited to the projects, all other stakeholders are chickens. Judged from the agenda, this session will be much about required skills and motivation. That sounds promising

What’s special about agile teams? read more…