Objective Visions provides a full range of services to help you get started with agile software development and to help your development teams achieve and then sustain high-performance. Our clients in the UK and Germany include FTSE 100 and DAX 30 organisations in the telecommunications, utilities and financial services sectors.
Whatever the size of your organisation, if it develops software, the successful adoption of agile methods can make a significant contribution to its competitive advantage. Please take a few moments to read about how we can help you in your agile journey.
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Simon Roberts was recently invited to talk about Scrum and SOA at the Center for Digital Technology and Management in Munich, Germany. The CDTM is a partnership between two Munich universities and cooperates closely with industry. It's aim is to "prepare the students for future leadership positions in their professional career."
The talk was provided as a part of a course that introduces students to an agile approach to SOA development. During the course, real functionality will be developed and demonstrated to industry partners.
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Posted by Simon on May 25, 2007
As a Scrum coach and practitioner, I find that Scrum itself, backed up by my experience, provides most of the guidance that I need to advise clients during agile transitions. However, sometimes it is useful to look at other flavours of agile. Lean Software Development, which shares a common ancestry with Scrum in that they were both inspired by the Toyota Production System and the Toyota Product Development System, provides additional insight that can be used in combination with Scrum.
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Posted by Simon on Feb 20, 2007
We’ve translated Mike Cohn’s re-distributable Introduction to Scrum into German. You can get it here. It’s licensed using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Please let us know if you make improvements.
Update. Mike Cohn has kindly added the German version to the Mountain Goat Software web site. You can access it here.
Posted by Simon on Feb 12, 2007
