Coding Session Tampere

We had the second session on applied Agile practices to an example problem. After the usual random walk the Team formed a Sprint Backlog and Burndown and started to work towards the first story. Pair programming was in use.

PO is eager to review the acceptance test for the first story. This time I mostly watched on the side as I had an impediment (age 3) with me. Starduck Studios proved to be equipped with enough toys, too. :)

http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Coding+Session+Tampere+20100126

Guest lecture by Lars Bak (Google) at TUT

I listened to Lars Bak's (Google) talk on Google Chrome javascript engine (V8). He is famous for his work, among others, on HotSpot Java VM and CLDC HotSpot VM for Mobile Edition Java.

I understood that with V8 Google wants to drive the whole industry forward in javascript performance. Since javascript applications need to target all browsers, they must follow the constraints set by the weakest of them. By open sourcing V8 Google wants to set the standard and indicate other browser vendors on how to reach that. Very interesting strategy.

Pushing JavaScript Performance in Google Chrome
Guest lecture by Lars Bak (Google)

http://www.tut.fi/public/index.cfm?MainSel=1&Sel=78&Show=78&siteid=0&view=user_detail&ID=59791&Event=59791

Agile Dinner Tampere

I organized another Agile Dinner in Tampere. This time it was a routine task, as Pasi Kovanen and Pekka Mattila volunteered to tell us about continuous integration and build tools. Really good discussion afterwards.

http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Agile+Dinner+Tampere+20100119

Coding Session Tampere

We held another coding session at Starduck Studios. This time we kicked-off a project to provide an implementation for a simple (but not trivial) example problem (Robert Martin's Coffee Maker). Initial session went to forming and estimating the Product Backlog.

Looking forward to seeing this promising Team to deliver it!

http://confluence.agilefinland.com/display/af/Coding+Session+Tampere+20100112