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Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Training

Notes taken for posterity during two days of Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) training recently provided by Juniper Hill Associates at The Ohio State University earlier this month. Much like my notes for Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training 3 years ago which you can find here and here, these notes

Past Book Review (October 21, 2007): "Software by Numbers"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development , by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang, Prentice Hall, 2003, reposted here: This book caught my attention because I was searching for a decent book on ROI and software development, and Dr. Jane

Strange Loop 2014:Keynote: Our Shared Joy of Programming

Peabody Opera House September 19, 2014: 4:50 PM – 5:30 PM From the promotional materials: Our Shared Joy of Programming Have you ever had flying dreams? Or dreams that all of a sudden you finally understood it “all”? These feelings are echoed in the joy we experience in learning,

Strange Loop 2014:Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza

Peabody Opera House September 18, 2014: 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM From the promotional materials: Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most

Strange Loop 2014:Sessions Planning

The following are the most probable and least probable sessions that I expect to attend during each time slot of the Strange Loop 2014 conference next week, although anything is possible, and I can be swayed. Thursday September 18 7:30am – 8:45am Registration 8:45am – 9:00am Welcome – Alex

Past Book Review (July 4, 2006): "Software Estimation"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices), by Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 2006, reposted here: McConnell immediately differentiates between software estimation as a science and software estimation as an art within the first pages of the introduction

New Book Review: "Practical Machine Learning"

New book review for Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation, by Ellen Friedman and Ted Dunning, O'Reilly, 2014, reposted here: This work is a short, white paper sized text that walks the reader through practical aspects of machine learning recommendation, specifically for those who are new to this

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 6

The last post in my series on Liquibase, an open source database change management tool, mentioned that I had been contacted by a startup that was looking to potentially work on a commercial release. A couple months after meeting with the cofounder and CTO of the firm as part of

New Book Review: "R in a Nutshell"

New book review for R in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (Second Edition), by Joseph Adler, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: This book is the second that I purchased this past year to get up to speed on the R language and environment, along with "R in

New Book Review: "Drools Developer's Cookbook"

New book review for Drools Developer's Cookbook, by Lucas Amador, Packt Publishing, 2012, reposted here: In my earlier review of "Instant Drools Starter", I mentioned that since it had been several years since I had last used a rules engine to any significant extent on a