- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on September 5, 2010
I was real surprised to read an really pragmatic article about software development on CIO (usually I find excellent news for cloud, virtualization and similar goodness).
Unfortunately, the original paper at Forrester is not free, and if bump in online version, please send or comment. Scrum supports some of things outlined, and other stuff can be easily done with good team (not good as out of the box, but rather groomed over time).
Here is the abstract and the link to article:
These pragmatic practices, from Forrester Research, won't break the bank, cause a revolt among application development team members or slow down development processes.
http://www.cio.com/article/603576/7_Sensible_Steps_to_Improve_Software_Quality
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on August 16, 2010
This video is masterfully animated by hand-drawing which is really following the short 10 minute story about a classical organizational approach to motivation which shows bad performance results for everything except the operational tasks, and how we should approach motivating our teams for the creative tasks, which are very important in ICT. Scrum already has some of this things included in its practices.
You can view the video here, or click below.
I would like to thank my associate for sharing this. He learned of this video during his CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) training, where he saw it.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on August 14, 2010
This year I was invited as a speaker in the Microsoft Dynamics area for the annual Microsoft conference Sinergija (Sinergy).
I have been a regular speaker at Sinergija since 2007 when I held 3 tracks, and I got to amazing 5 tracks in 2008, and then back to 3 tracks in 2009.
What was important in 2009 is that one of my associates held one track, and I am really proud of this, and even prouder because this year tracks of two of my associates have already been approved.
Information about me was published on front page of Sinergija's webs
ite and you can find full article in their lecturer series. They also published this on Sinergija's Facebook Page and in their Facebook lecturer album.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on July 29, 2010
We wanted to include the complexity analysis in our CI (Continuous Integration) environment within the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. This is especially important for us, as we are very agile (more than 3 years of Scrum), and have top notch technical environment to support this in the .NET world (Microsoft Visual Studio with Team System).
We were missing software quality indicators which can help developers check their code in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 environment. Now together with the existing CI tools in DAX (Dynamics AX) technology has enabled better software quality which is very important in the lean approach, because your work quality is not only affecting end-user, but also the others who work on it during the process, which in software production can be many people.
I knew of great tool that was created for Dynamics AX 2004 that supports software metrics like: Cyclomatic Complexity, Lack of Cohesion of Methods, Number of Source Lines, Comment Percentage. I tried to add it to our environment, but found some issues. These were easily fixed using DAX's Code comparison tools. You can download the updated version here (110 kb). It also includes the short manual (2 steps) for user setup. Just unzip the archive, import the XPO (choosing to overwrite the existing elements).
If you have time, take a look at good grad paper from the original tool author can be found.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on April 21, 2010
In the aftermath of our success with the big jump from version 3 to version 5 of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, we have extended our winning streak by winning the Serbian Association of Software Engineering’s Plaque for Innovation in Business use of IT.
For that matter I’ve been an honoured guest in the national radio show Digital Icons along with other winners.
Also the national television made a report on the Plaque winners during the final ceremony and can be seen here. A new company that specializes in electronic media also made the report which can be seen here.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on December 22, 2009
For the second year in a row Delta Sport has won the International ICT Award, Diskobolos (Discobolus), this time in finances category. The Diskobolos award is given by JISA (Union of ICT Societies of Serbia) for the best achievements in the usage of information and communication technologies in almost all fields of social and business life.
This year we entered the finals with our successful upgrade from version 3 to version 5 of Microsoft’s flagship ERP system (Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009). Microsoft has elected us as the best case study among 37 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and made a video case study about our epic ERP upgrade project.
At the official ceremony in the Continental Hotel, on behalf of the company, I received the award. Once again (like last year), I would like to emphasize that this awards is result of work of the whole company.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on November 19, 2009
This year the Synergy (Sinergija) had two days of lectures, instead of three days like in previous years. I held three lectures this time:
- The Big Jump - From “Axapta 3.0” to Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009
- Scrum with Team Foundation System 2010
- Maintainable and Robust Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
I was pleased to see that this year we had foreign guests attending the lectures, including my lecture on Scrum that I held in English in the manner of a friendly host.
What I am most proud of, among my this year’s efforts concerning the Synergy is that my role as coach was crowned by the fact that I had trained one of my associates so that he was able to hold a lecture all on his own, after just a few words of introduction by myself.
- 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 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