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Essays from 2011, page 2

18 essays from 2011

  1. What would a European Agile comunity look like? #ALEnetwork

    Many of us have been involved in many different communities. Agile Finland for a start. But also other communities: our local kindergarten or school parent’s group, the school or kindergarten itself; the local neighbors; the apartment building executive board (“hallitus” in Finnish), etc. In fact, if we look back in history all of our history …

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  2. Patterns of Agility, talk at Scan-Agile 2011 and Agile Riga Day 2011

    Some time ago I wrote a post here about Patterns we can identify in projects and how they relate to the life-cycle model in use for the project. Some patterns are definitely signs of an Agile project (release working software at the end of every *very* short iteration for example). Other patterns are clear signs …

    1 min readcode

  3. Another job opportunity for 31337 h4x0rs that love testing!

    F-Secure is hiring! And they have some interesting positions as well. Check out this one: People who have experience in “SW Engineer in Test” type of a role. This is a fairly new role and not well established in Finland. The discipline is young and top notch professionals rare. An excellent niche to put yourself …

    1 min readcode

  4. Job opportunity for awesome people in Tampere, Finland

    Our good friends at Leonidas are hiring. Not, not the chocolate people, the software people 😉 The company looks very interesting. I especially liked the “one week from idea to prototype” service they have. A true agile service! 🙂 Take a look at their web-site and check if you are one of the awesome people …

    1 min read

  5. To all my friends and colleagues at Nokia, my contribution

    Without a doubt many of you have read the news about Nokia taking Windows Phone 7 as their main Smartphone platform. That decision by Nokia has a tremendous impact in my local software community: Finland. Nokia mobile phones (as it was known before) has always been a major employer of software development professionals in Finland …

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  6. SWAT Team, a Pattern for Overloaded, Multi-project Organizations

    We all have seen it in our projects. Some teams are overloaded and can’t deliver what we need while others are not so busy and could even tackle more work if there was a need for that. This type of partial overloading is easily understood if we picture the work flow as a network of …

    8 min readcode

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