Software projects that are developed based on agile processes like Scrum or eXtreme Programming are very demanding concerning the skills of the developers in an agile team.

In 2001 Andrew Hunt and David Thomas introduced a benchmark for modern developers with their book  „The Pragmatic Programmer“. The focus of their work is on practises, tools and design-paradigms to help programmers produce better code. read more…

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This is the last post of the fourth-part travel (§1, §2, §3) about the Viking-Laws.

The title of the fourth law is one of the reasons why I have posted it on my monitor. :-)

There are some interesting bullet points of it and they could be useful not only for developers:

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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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