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Book on Project Management using Scrum - #1 Bestseller in Amazon Spain
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Promociones de Amazon: Kindle Flash y PublicaConKindle
Amazon quiere celebrar durante todo el mes de octubre el fenómeno de la autopublicación con una promoción especial en una selección de libros entre los que estará mi libro Certificación Professional Scrum Master. Durante esta promoción, llamada #PublicaConKindle, el libro … Sigue leyendo
Dudas sobre Scrum
Un lector de este blog me preguntaba hace ya algún tiempo algunas dudas que le surgían en el uso de Scrum en sus proyectos. Algunas de ellas pueden ser bastante comunes a otros equipos de Scrum o que yo mismo … Sigue leyendo
Certificación Professional Scrum Master best seller en Amazon.com
Hoy ha sido mi libro Certificación Professional Scrum Master el que ha llegado a la categoría de best seller en la categoría de Informática e Internet para los libros Kindle en español de Amazon internacional. También ha llegado al número … Sigue leyendo
Gestión de proyectos con Scrum entre los más vendidos en Amazon México
Durante casi todo el día de ayer mi primer libro, Gestión práctica de proyectos con Scrum, estuvo entre los más vendidos en diversas categorías de Amazon México: Número 1 en la categoría Desarrollo de Software de los libros Kindle. Número … Sigue leyendo
From Agile 101: The role of product owner
Are you sure you need a Clippy-like assistant on your app? Many titles could be used for the person who acts as Project Director on the client’s side: the person with the product vision that the company needs, the one … Sigue leyendo
Oracle XE, Forms 6i and a trip to Ecuador
Quite some time ago I had to deploy an application developed with Oracle Developer 6i (also known as Forms & Reports). Another public institution bestowed upon our customer, a museum, a system that would help them to catalogue, inventory and … Sigue leyendo
Blank Totals in Oracle BI Discoverer
Another technical post. This time about how to solve the Blank Totals problem in Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer: I worked years ago as an EUL administrator with the Oracle Discoverer tools. We found a problem that troubled us during days: … Sigue leyendo
How to make estimates come out the way you want (don’t fool yourself) – From Agile 101 book
Now, let’s hear a quick story about how we fool ourselves when somebody requests a quote for a job. It may have happened to you at some point. A client has requested a quote. He has an idea in mind … Sigue leyendo
More on estimates – From upcoming book Agile 101
When we talk about estimating using Agile techniques, some things are difficult to accept for those of us who have been planning and calculating timing and deadlines for a few years. We can find several techniques for Agile planning: Planning … Sigue leyendo
From Agile 101 book: Real artists ship!
Sometimes, and quite often, we delay delivering our work because we believe it is not ready. We think that we still have things to improve or correct, that we still have to work on it. More often than not, that … Sigue leyendo
From Agile 101 book: The Ant and the Cicada
One summer a cicada was resting in a field, when she noticed a small ant running around here and there. – “What are you doing?” asked the Cicada. – “The Queen has asked me to build a new anthill!” replied … Sigue leyendo
How we used Scrum in our software projects
These days I have been preparing and updating a Prezi presentation about how we used Scrum (or Agile development) in our software development projects. You won’t find there a Scrum theory implementation but the process and methods we used to … Sigue leyendo
Functional tests with Selenium WebDriver
(Sorry, this is a technical post about software testing, but don’t worry, you can find here some of my non-technical blog posts) A few years ago we used Selenium IDE in a web application project just to check the functionalities … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum’s sprint 0 and the initial design
Sometimes we’re in projects in which we need to prepare a large number of things before starting out. Can we start building without stopping to plan or analyse what we’re about to do? When we read about Scrum, we get … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum for fixed-price projects
One of the most common questions we ask when we’re wondering whether we should adopt a methodology like Scrum is how to face the fixed-price contracts that are so common in public procurement and many other sectors. One of the … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum in a maintenance project
There is a common doubt among those considering using Agile methodologies to manage a project: would it be possible to apply Scrum to projects where, on top of the upcoming and planned tasks, there are frequent interruptions to solve maintenance … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: How to write an Agile book
Yes, you can also write a book in an Agile manner. Not only software can be created this way. All these Agile things can be applied to a myriad of fields, not only to technology. In this chapter I will … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101 book: Scrum’s advantages
Scrum pros and cons: blue pill, red pill I don’t want to become one of those Agile evangelists, preaching everywhere about how good and modern it is to be agile. But now that we’ve discussed the disadvantages of Scrum, we … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum pros & cons
“There is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things.” Machiavelli Disadvantages of using Scrum How many technologies have quickly popped up and then vanished even quicker? They … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101 book: Requirements might change
A few years ago, before completely applying this whole Agile thing, I worked in the development of a web application that should manage the client’s worksheets through a series of steps, a wizard that would lead users through the phase … Sigue leyendo