Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on January 10, 2011
My feeling on my way home is that Benelux and the Nordic countries are still way ahead of the rest of us when it comes to Agile transformations and a core understanding of when the mechanics of Scrum can and should be used as a means to an end to increase throughput, ROI, or team morale.
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on December 1, 2010
The famous book The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century written by Thomas Friedman was one of the requirements of my economics professors at UPS back in the mid 90′s. CollabNet’s ALM platform was named in the book for helping to bridge the distance gap. Led by our founder Brian Behlendorf [...]
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on November 18, 2010
This week I flew to Tokyo on a one week intensive road trip where, among other things, I was asked to takepart in two day long seminars about Scrum / Agile / Lean – one in Japan and one in Seoul. The first day long seminar was put on with help from our partners XL Soft and our amazing staff in Tokyo.
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on October 9, 2010
- as I went to the Infosys Wikipedia page. “In 2007, Infosys received over 1.3 million applications and hired fewer than 3% of applicants.” Just think about the systems you need in place to review 3,562 resumes each calendar day or to hire 100 per calendar day every day.
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on October 9, 2010
For the weeks leading up to my trip to visit my colleagues across the world I was socializing my visit with my team as well as anyone else who’d listen. I talk a lot, and I talk even more when I am nervous. And I was, nervous that is.
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on October 7, 2010
I was lucky enough to attend the Agile 10 tradeshow [http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/index.html] earlier in August. I attended a few great presentations.
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on September 23, 2010
One of the things I have spent a lot of time on is the interplay between our new product stack and how to articulate it to customers that have an intermediate understanding of why it is that you can’t live without us.
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on September 7, 2010
I was lucky enough to attend Scrum Day in Munich this past April. At this event I had the opportunity to finally do a quick meet and greet with Jeff Sutherland, PhD. Most people know Jeff as one of the founders of Scrum or in his previous role as CTO of Patientkeeper.
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Posted by Laszlo Szalvay on August 30, 2010
Although US Government legislation is moving to include business users on software development projects, agencies and systems integrators will still have the flexibility to maneuver around these laws using cultural norms as the justification.
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