LJ State

[jducoeur]

A bunch of you have undoubtedly noticed this already (from my remarkably tardy comments), but just FYI: I am *way* behind on LJ, even by my usually lax standards. Work is keeping me super-busy, and I've got a lot of irons in the fire at home, so there just isn't much time to read. Even working strictly on my Crucial Catch-up Filter, I'm still about eight days behind right now.

So if there's anything important going on that I should know about, please contact me directly via email, phone or IM. Thanks!

Comments

[mikekn]

Nothing important on my end, but I thought I would let you know that "Ancient Board Games in Perspective" has finally been printed. I've already received my copy, so I know that this time it is real :) Barnes and Noble has the best price I've seen.

[jducoeur]

Fascinating. Yes, I clearly need to get that -- thanks for the heads-up!

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Not really. But as I sit here at work, I see a bit of an opportunity for cross pollination.

I've a team here that is working its way into agile processes - I'm being sent for Scrum Master training next month (not that we're going to be doing full-fledged scrum, but you take the agile training you can get). You have a team that's recently started down that road as well.

Methinks some talking around that might prove fruitful...

[jducoeur]

Yaas -- let's find an opportunity to chat, preferably sometime when we can get Onur into the conversation as well. (Since he's been at least as involved with the nuts and bolts details of getting agile working for us as I have.) We've tended to focus more on the XPish stuff than the Scrum side of things, but it's all part of the same large stewpot.

Suffice it to say, the comment I heard last year, that getting started on agile usually involves about six months of pain, has proven entirely true for us. We're gradually improving, and I think the restructuring is going to help, but it's been a rocky transition...