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Agile Product Management with Scrum : Chapter 5 : Sprint Meetings

Agile Product Management with Scrum : Chapter 5 : Sprint Meetings

In which I summarize and discuss chapter 5 of Roman Pichler’s book on product management in Scrum, on the product owner collaborating in sprint meetings. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of Chapter 5 So here’s the deal on what Scrum is. You take a small team. You free them to focus

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Chapter 4 : Release planning

Agile Product Management with Scrum: Chapter 4 : Release planning

In which I summarize and discuss chapter 4 of Roman Pichler’s book, on release planning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of Chapter 4 Release planning. The team should do it. The product owner should drive it. Mostly focused on the next release. Which should be soon. With less scope and more quality.

Agile Product Management with Scrum : Chapter 3 : Product backlog

Agile Product Management with Scrum : Chapter 3 : Product backlog

In which I summarize and discuss chapter 3 of Roman Pichler’s book on the Scrum product owner role. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of Chapter 3 The product backlog is a beautifully simple prioritized queue of user stories. The DEEP qualities of the product backlog Detailed appropriately The highest priority items have

Agile Product Management with Scrum : Chapter 2 : Product vision

Agile Product Management with Scrum : Chapter 2 : Product vision

In which I summarize the second chapter in Roman Pichler’s Agile Product Management with Scrum, on envisioning the product. —— Chapter 2 Summarized Here’s what I took from the second chapter of the book. > The vision describes why the project is being undertaken and what the desired end

Agile Product Management with Scrum : Chapter 1 : Understanding the Product Owner Role

Agile Product Management with Scrum : Chapter 1 : Understanding the Product Owner Role

In which I summarize the first chapter in Roman Pichler’s Agile Product Management with Scrum, on understanding the product owner role. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 Summarized Here’s what I took from the first chapter of the book. (A previous post treated the preface [https://apetro.ghost.io/agile-product-management-with-scrum-preface/] .) Design

Agile Product Management with Scrum : Preface

Agile Product Management with Scrum : Preface

In which I summarize the preface to Roman Pichler’s Agile Product Management with Scrum. Summary of the preface Here’s what I took from the preface of the book. Agile practices involve close collaboration between business and technical people. > product ownership has consistently been the major challenge and

Scrum and the Minimum Effective Dose

Scrum and the Minimum Effective Dose

In which I consider Scrum through the lens of "minimum effective dose". I read a couple articles the other day about the pharmeceutial concept of minimum effective dose and applying that concept to other aspects of life [http://lifehacker.com/streamline-productivity-with-the-minimum-effective-dos-1689755401] . Considering treatment of disease with medicine, for

An Exercise for Defining Done

An Exercise for Defining Done

In which I describe a proposed exercise for arriving at a Definition of Done. This post My Scrum team doesn’t yet have a written Definition of Done [https://www.scrum.org/Resources/Scrum-Glossary/Definition-of-Done] and we’ve gone a couple rounds of individual proposed drafts without feeling consensus, so

WYSIWTF

WYSIWYG editors fail because they conflate formatting with content. I refer to this phenomena in shorthand as "WYSIWTF". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I used to love Atlassian [https://www.atlassian.com/]'s Confluence [https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence] product. Love. Direct access to simple markup allowed me to be

uPortal 4.2.0 Milestone 1

uPortal 4.2.0 Milestone 1

uPortal 4.2.0 Milestone 1 release Big picture uPortal 4.2.0-M1 is uPortal 4.1 but Better. It's got a better Marketplace that's much more attractive and closer to feature-complete (possibly even usable by real users!) It's got better JSON APIs and

Call for Proposals for Open Apereo 2015

Call for Proposals for Open Apereo 2015

The Open Apereo 2015 conference will be in scenic Baltimore, MD on May 31 through June 4th 2015. The Call for Proposals for conference sessions is now open [https://www.apereo.org/open-apereo-2015-call-proposals]. Unfortunately, you’d have to authenticate to see the actual Call for Proposals details. So here’s

Citizens for a Better uPortal Tomorrow Tomorrow

Citizens for a Better uPortal Tomorrow Tomorrow

In which I articulate some code quality steps I'd like uPortal to take. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are steps about being a better environment for development of the open source product, not steps about being a better open source product for adopters. Though of course these are related: the better

Making alternate profile selection sticky

In which I share a design for making ad-hoc profile selection sticky in uPortal. What problem is being solved? See also: * Pull request proffering code [https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/pull/450] implementing this design * JIRA issue UP-4223 [https://issues.jasig.org/browse/UP-4223] * uportal-dev@ thread [http://thread.gmane.org/

Pipelines need Valves

Pipelines need Valves

In which I articulate preliminary design for uPortal rendering pipeline plugins to enable branching and terminating in redirects. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update This solution is now coded and deployed to MyUW test tiers and configured to apparent good effect. The generic, re-usable, composable components in this solution potentially applicable across many uPortal

Thoughts on Unicorns are People Too

Thoughts on Unicorns are People Too

In which I appreciate Abinante [http://lizabinante.com/]'s Madison+ Ruby 2014 [http://lanyrd.com/2014/madplusruby/] talk Unicorns are People Too [http://lanyrd.com/2014/madplusruby/sdcwfy/]: Rethinking Soft and Hard Skills and share the points I took from it. Summary * "Soft skills" are important. Call

Positive Impression of Sparkbox

In which I share my positive impressions of Sparkbox [http://www.seesparkbox.com], informed by attending a Build Right, Build Repsonsively workshop [http://buildright.io/build-responsively] given by Sparkbox [http://www.seesparkbox.com] President Ben Callahan [http://www.twitter.com/bencallahan] and Creative Director Jeremy Loyd [http://www.twitter.com/

uPortal should adopt Semantic Versioning

uPortal should adopt Semantic Versioning

uPortal should adopt Semantic Versioning [http://semver.org/]. uPortal should also adopt some other practices supported and improved by Semantic Versioning [http://semver.org/]. This is mostly just moving a decimal point, but it is the right move for the decimal point to make at this juncture. Semantic Versioning [http:

Recovering from a broken staged Sonatype Maven repository

Recovering from a broken staged Sonatype Maven repository

The uPortal 4.1.1 release process staged a broken Maven repository in Sonatype. I only noticed this after pushing the 4.1.1 release commits and tags to GitHub. This is the story of how I recovered. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What went wrong In the uPortal release process [https://wiki.jasig.

uPortal CVE-2014-5059 Workaround

uPortal CVE-2014-5059 Workaround

In which I share instructions on how to fix your uPortal security.properties to immediately block the CVE-2014-5059 vulnerability. Structure of this blog post This blog post provides: * Why you should care * How to determine if your uPortal deployment is affected * How to compose a fix for your security.properties,

CVE-2014-4172 Workaround Filter

CVE-2014-4172 Workaround Filter

In which I share a Java Servlet Filter that blocks the CVE-2014-4172 illicit proxy vulnerability to which old Java CAS client libraries are prone, as an alternative to upgrading to the latest Java CAS Client 3.3. What problem is being solved here? On August 11th 2014, the CAS project

uPortal 4.1.0 Now Available

uPortal 4.1.0 Now Available

I had the pleasure of serving as the release engineer for the uPortal 4.1.0 release. Here's a blog post about what's in it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- uPortal 4.1 is a "big" "minor" uPortal release including a bunch of features. Responsive Design!

Got Yak?

Here's my obligatory Hello World post. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had some Blogger blogs a decade ago that are probably full of embarrassing garbage at this point and I should just delete them. I had a pretty good professional blog on my prior employer's website , but that'