Dion’s Doggy Day Care

I do Jean Tabaka’s 59 minute Scrum exercise during my CSM courses. Usually the teams produce paper based products, but occasionally they decide to do an electronic pamphlet. Here’s what Team DDDC produced at my ScrumMaster (CSM) course in Sydney last week.
And, here’s a page out of Diana Mounter’s notebook from the course. I love [...]

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[From the Archives] The Ball Point Game

I‘ve been blogging about Scrum and Agile software development since 2005, and you can find my older work on my personal website. Some of the material has proven to be very popular over the years. So, in an effort to share this the material with a wider audience I’ve decided to start a series featuring [...]

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Two wonderful videos from RSA

Here are a couple of videos that I’ve been watching recently. Both are talks given at The RSA and animated by Cognitive Media. I’ll start with my favourite which is “The Empathic Civilisation” by Jeremy Rifkin.

And, this second video is “Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us” by Dan Pink.

More fascinating videos and [...]

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[From the Archives] The Specification Exercise

I‘ve been blogging about Scrum and Agile software development since 2005, and you can find my older work on my personal website. Some of the material has proven to be very popular over the years. So, in an effort to share this the material with a wider audience I’ve decided to start a series featuring [...]

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Software defects in quantitative investment funds

There was an interesting article in the New York Times over the weekend about software defects in quant funds. Quantitative funds (also know as Black Box funds) are investment funds in which investment decisions are determined by elaborate software algorithms.
Over the last 10 years investors have put vast sums of money with quant [...]

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