It’s been a busy few months at Excelon. The New York Trip, a brief European tour, Justin went to Boston for STPCon, thanksgiving, lots of writing – actually lots and […]
Save Our Scrum
Ken Schwaber, a co-creator of scrum, says that roughly 25% of teams trying the method realize the gains they had hope. More teams call themselves “Scrumbut”, “Scrumerfall”, or “Scrumish” than […]
Be Careful what you wish for …
I haven’t had much time for blogging lately. A few great, interesting, cool things that are swamping me right now – – Jim Brosseau’s Book, “Taking Ownership”is completely through the […]
Something old …
I just got back from the wedding of a collegue. In that spirit, I am reminded of the talk I gave last year at the Indiana Quality Conference – something […]
Conferences – V
I promised to detail my strategy to start attending conferences. Actually, it’s pretty simple. 1) Get involved in a local user’s group. Meet colleagues, discuss ideas, help other people solve […]
Tutorials and Training
In a response to my blog post on training, Mark wrote: I would worry more about the thrashing effect of a developer testing course which did not focus on a […]
Lightning Talks Wrap-Up
Just a quick after-action review from STAREast — Overall it was a great experience. Alan Page has his lightning talk up on-line in English Prose; Michael Bolton has his as […]
Lightning Talk Mojo – I
Breathing readers of Creative Chaos know that I am facilitating Lightning TalksatSTAREast 2007 – astute ones realize that I am a genuine fan of the concept. I would like to […]
Upcoming Workshop
I will be running a small private workshop next month – about public speaking – for new speakers. That’s right; I am giving a talk on how to give a […]
Indy Trip Report
Last month I made it out to Indianapolis for a meeting of the Indianapolis QA Association and a short course on software requirements. Sadly, I tried to make the event […]
Way Over Book-ed …
I know, the past few months haven’t provided the typical Creative Chaos output. So, here’s what I have been doing – 1) Evaluating Submissions for Lightning Talks at STAREast this […]
Conference Presentation Idea …
Secrets of Enterprise DevelopmentWhat can we learn about Project Scheduling from Mr. Scott? Security from Mr. Worf? Architecture from Data, Engineering from Geordi, Analysis from Spock, and Leadership from Kirk? […]
Teaching ‘Agile’ Testing
Elisabeth Hendrickson recently posted a request for feedback on teaching agile testing. I liked the question so much that I wrote up a long reply; so long, in fact, that […]
Solid presentation advice …
Suggestions and Examples of What Not to Submit 1. Attendees are paying to take classes—they don’t want to hear a sales pitch, no matter how thickly veiled. Please do not […]
Blue Man Group – I
First, some background. I submit that there are currently two very big extremes in the world of software conferences: Death by Powerpoint and Open Spaces. The Death By PowerPoint Conferences […]
Presentations – III
For some time I’ve been trying to put together a post about the Blue Man Group – the seven-city theatre production that is, well … unique. I recently saw Blue […]