- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on October 31, 2009
It was a great pleasure to hold the lecture on Agile Software Development with Visual Studio at first ever Serbian CodeCamp which was sponsored by INETA.
I was happy to be invited and glad to see that many people attended this event. I would emphasize that the wide variety of subjects that was covered by this lecture gave it a highly exciting scent.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on October 29, 2009
In the light of the great success of our upgrade from version 3 to version 5 of Microsoft’s flagship ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, I’ve had the honor to be invited to Microsoft’s Dynamics Convergence conference in Vienna and tell the story of our success. Numerous guests attended this event and the highly anticipated new features of this ERP system seem truly exciting.
I presented our upgrade project and success with Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 as a chat and talk session with Microsoft host as part of Addressing Business Issues with Microsoft Dynamics AX session. The fact that most people found formidable after the session, was that our development team was extremely a small one, as well as the fact that the downtime of the business due to the upgrade process was less than two days – moreover, less than one weekend.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on October 19, 2009
Due to the changes in the upper structure of the Scrum Alliance, this gathering was remarkable in many ways. We were given the unique opportunity to get to know the members of the board of directors of the Alliance, and learn their ways of using agile techniques to receive feedback.
The scheduled lectures were quite educational, also other events that took place were extremely interesting. However, the highlight of the event for me was having the chance to speak to Jeff Sutherland (one of the inventors of the Scrum software development process) in person.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on October 5, 2009
We imagined this event as retrospective after big welfare CSM event organized in June 2009. The idea was that most people who came to training in June had tried to implement Scrum in their companies, and at this retrospective we wanted to discuss on how this sprint went, share experiences and learn.
The event was sponsored by the Software Engineering Laboratory of the Faculty of Organization Science, as well as by professor Sinisa Vlajic, who provided the space at the Faculty, as well as promoted the interest in the event itself.
Talking about various challenges emerging during the implementation of Scrum in real life was a formidable experience. I think everyone found the hearing of others’ experiences quite useful.
It was this meeting that preceded our group’s recognition by the Scrum Alliance as an official user group: http://www.scrumalliance.org/user_groups/82
If you are interested in joining Serbia Scrum User Group, please email me (bojan.jovicic@gmail.com).
Update: we have decided to host Scrum User Group Serbia as part of Agile Serbia discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/AgileSerbia
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on October 2, 2009
During the second half of september I've had a great pleasure to visit France and to attend the September 2009 voCamp Nice. voCamp is a camp (workshop) focused on building vocabularies (ontologies).
This year I became a member of GOOD OLD AI Research Network, and changed my Ph. D. thesis topic to finding the link between Agile Development and Intelligent Systems. Attending the voCamp was a great opportunity to see group and iterative-incremental development of ontologies in practice. Being as pragmatic as I am, I submitted two topics which are directly related to my everyday work.
voCamp Nice was a formidable experience. Fabien Gandon was the main host, and he very professionally handled the whole two-day event. I've had a pleasure to work on ontologies with many people of different age and occupations.
Here are two photos from the event (more here):