Agile
Java DevOps at the swampUP
The folks at JFrog definitely know how to put on events in style. For several years they have had an exclusive cruise at JavaOne for "Frogs and Friends", and this year they stepped it up with a full day DevOps-focused conference in Napa, the heart of wine country.
Taking it Virtual!
I did a presentation at the Agile 2012 conference in Dallas on how to do Agile release planning with distributed teams. This is something that we struggled with at my last company since we had 300 developers split into 40+ teams in 5 different countries.
New Blog Categories... JavaFX, Agile, and Flash
For those of you following my blog, I have setup some top level categories and matching subdomains to make easier to get just the information you need.
Apropos Launches into the Stratus
Followers of my blog have probably heard about the Apropos project that I built in JavaFX and released as open-source. It is an Agile Project Portfolio Planning tool that I developed for work to help manage our large Agile rollout. Apropos is a perfect application of rich client technology, because it sits on top of the web services exposed by Rally, and provides a higher level of visibility and planning.
Announcing the Apropos Project
At the Lean Software and Systems Conference a week ago, Israel Gat, Erik Huddleston, and I did a presentation on Reformulating the Product Delivery Process. At the end of this talk, we unveiled an open-source, JavaFX tool called Apropos that we use for Product Portfolio Planning at Inovis.