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Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:25 PM

Experimenting With Scrum Part 4

This is the last post in my "experimenting with scrum" series. After our bug smash time, we went into a period of more serious product development. Recall that we were not implementing all of scrum but rather just the scrum meetings portion. This works
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:20 PM

Experimenting With Scrum Part 3

Our first attempt at using scrum came during what we call a bug smash. That is a time when we focus solely on fixing bugs. No work is being done on new features. This seemed like a logical time to implement scrum meetings. I chose to meet once a day for
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:28 AM

A Few Points Of Interest

A few interesting articles I've found on the web recently: Advice for those thinking about starting a company. From someone who did it and came back to the corporate world. If you want to read more about startups, I suggest you check out Paul Graham .
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:13 AM

Experimenting With Scrum Part 2

It occurs to me that some of those reading this blog will not be familiar with Scrum. Before I go into any details about what did and didn't work about my experiments, I'll take some time to give a quick overview of the process. For more information,
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Monday, January 02, 2006 4:13 PM

Making the Media Center Remote Keyboard Work

When Microsoft released their remote keyboard for Media Center, I was excited. Here was a wireless keyboard, including mouse and MCE-specific functionality. As an added benefit, it uses the Media Center IR receiver so you don't have to connect another
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