It's week 3 of my jammed packed training schedule this July. This week I'm producing course 918 Agile Fundamentals: Scrum, Kanban, Lean and XP After the pre-course meeting with Alan O'Callaghan on Tuesday evening and sitting through Day1 and Day 2 this is turning into an interesting week for me and I have already learned a great deal.
We have the links to the previous days:
Day 1
Day 2
You can keep up to date with the final day here on the live blog.
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15:30 That's me done...The class will be doing the exam I'm off home for the weekend. I'll be back next week.
15:07 Start of chapter 8 Agile beyond Software Development. Look at Agile fluency and role based development pathways.
15:00 Talking about continuous integration. Alan mentioned Martin Fowler (Not the Eastenders Character) and his website
14:55 Interesting questions on Agile testing
14:47 Talking about Test-Driven Development (TDD)...mitigates against gold plating and programmers write to specification.
14:35 How does TOGAF and Scrum work...Have a look at this
14:15 "The road to success is always under construction." say Alan when talking about Impediments
14:05 Wrap up of the estimate chapter. Short break then we'll be onto Chapter 7.
13:40 Feeling a little chilly...Information radiators are next on the list and we're starting to look at the scrum board and burn down charts.
13:25 Into the last half a day we go. First activity after lunch is estimating a paint job.
13:20 For some strange reason I'm singing/humming along to the song 'You've got that loving feeling...' For no reason what so ever...
In the cricket England have to got lunch 95-1 with Joe Root on top form.
In other news
12:25 Friday lunch time...A very interesting morning.
12:15 Planning poker and estimation
12:10 Talking about team estimation and story points
11:55 In a break from the class, the cricket score England are batting. Hales is out for 10. England 43-1
11:51 Daily planning
11:20 Groups have been preparing an elevator pitch
11:04 Chapter 6 Planning and Adapting
10:55 Talking about feedback...In other news England have won the toss and will bat up in Manchester 🙂
10:25 First coffee break. Session ended with a discussion around whether Scrum Master is full time job. Preferably is the answer.
10:12 Discussing frequent builds
09:35 Looking at Story Sizing
09:10 Starting with a review of what we have covered so far followed by what we'll cover today.
08:25 Class is all setup and we are getting ready for the last day
08:00 Just in class setting up. The station was quiet this morning. It must be the start of the school summer holidays. A few commuters, me being one and a few cricket fans off to Manchester for the second test in a rather quiet Euston station
