Monthly Archives: July 2010

A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum

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I have received my copy of the recently published “A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum”. The book covers much of what I have already experienced in my role as an IT architect for 4 Scrum teams consisting of developers from Denmark, Lithuania, Belarus and India. So I look forward to read through the practical suggestions in the book to see if our teams can improve – and to see if I have other practical advices and lessons learned to add.

These are some of topics in the book that I find interesting:

  • distributed teams
  • backlog and release plans
  • preparing for sprint planning
  • the actual sprint planning
  • continuous integration
  • test automation

The book is written by Elizabeth Woodward, Steffan Surdek, and Matthew Ganis. The book is available at Amazon: A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum.

Update July 18: As commented by Matthew Ganis: 100% of the proceeds go to charity (Children’s Hunger Fund and the Alzheimer’s Association).

Update August 16: A Facebook page for A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum is now available – and the web site for A Practical Guide to Distributed Scrum for has been updated.

I have somehow contributed to OpenNTF

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I woke up this morning to a comment by David Jeyachandran to my blog post on Sorting a NotesDocumentCollection by multiple field values. David wanted to let me know that he is using the sort function in the Notes Reconn project at OpenNTF.

That is great news – and I am happy to know that I have contributed to a project on OpenNTF (although just a very small part).

Apple iPad

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I am now the happy owner of an Apple iPad 3G 64 GB . I bought the iPad while in London last week – actually on the iPhone 4 launch day on June 24. It was fun to experience the buzz in the Apple Store on Regent Street.

I have been doing a bit of iPhone app programming and I look forward to try to program for the iPad. My first project will be to upgrade my current iPhone project to an universal app that runs on both the iPhone and the iPad. More on that later.

On my iPhone I have access to my work mail and calendar via Lotus Traveler – using VPN. I have yet to try to set this up on my new iPad but it should work exactly as on my iPhone – except for the much better mail and calendar experience due to the much larger display on the iPad.