The Lean Startup

Attented Petur Orri’s talk today about the Lean Startup arranged by Agilenetið and Dokkan. I’m very intrigued by Lean and believe I can learn a lot from it…but I also have my doubts about Lean and software development since it requires more creativity and...

Fun in teams

Fun in teams was the title of the talk that I attended at Betwere held by Gauti Guðmundsson. He wen’t over the importance of humor & fun in team building and part of project management. Fun in the end it’s always based on individuals and you...

Agilis 2011

I attended Agilis2011 and noted a few things down : Activating Your Agile Leadership Gift (Key speech) Christopher Avery I really enjoyed the simplicity Avery’s speech. He had about 3-4 slides and really kept focus for the 30 minutes discussing and explaining...

Excel Burndown chart template

Pretty handy to quickly get the burndown chart quickly up for a sprint. You just need to fill out the hours, number of stories, start & end date of sprint (and any holidays that are not weekends) and you’ll get the chart on the second sheet. Excel Scrum...

Agile & Scrum on one page

There’s something I love about putting a lot of information onto a single page. Hence I’ve been drawing Agile & Scrum on one page. The first version (alpha) is a decent proof of concept and should be great after a few alterations and graphical...