- 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 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 February 21, 2010
After all our last year’s success crowned by winning the Discobulos award once more, I was invited for an interview with eKapija, one of the most appreciated Serbian business online magazines. It was a great honor to be offered such an opportunity, especially for “Who is who” section.
After the interview was published I was surprised to see it rapidly become quite popular, later the article of the month in its category and eventually the most popular interview ever published on eKapija.
Here is the link: http://www.ekapija.com/website/sr/page/290332
- 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 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 June 28, 2009
I had a great pleasure to be a part of the big Scrum event held in Belgrade.
Initiated by one of the key players in design patterns and the father of organizational patterns, as well as a CST (Certified Scrum Trainer), James Coplien, with the help of his Scrum Alliance fellow members and CSTs, Dan Rawsthorne, Alan Cyment together with by our own Branislav (Bran) Selić, the event took place 8-10 june 2009 in Belgrade, Serbia.
James had already been our guest back in 2004 and this time together with Dan, Alan and Bran organized or offered this event with Siniša Vlajic’s support and direction. At the Faculty of Organization Sciences (FON) they organized 3 parallel Certified Scrum Master trainings with a fee that was almost an order of magnitude lower than usual.
I was honoured to be part of this giants team, and to be the co-trainer for the largest group together with James. On the third day two-hour tracks were given by James, Dan, Alan and by Bran. You can take a look at third day topics in agenda.
The event was organized very professionaly and the feedback I received afterwards was excellent. I really enjoyed all the discussions about a wide range of topics that we had in this 5 days (most of our guests arrived a few days before), and it was really inspiring to listen to these men.
For the ending, James, Dan and Alan (with Scrum Alliance’s blessing) gave their trainer’s fees to Sinisa to give it to charity cause of his choice.
The photo at the top, taken after the last lecture on the 3rd day and giving the fees to charity is showing (from left to right): Branislav (Bran) Selić, Dan Rawsthorne, Bojan Jovicic, James (Jim) Coplien,Siniša Vlajić. In row bellow on left you can see Alan Cyment during his CSM training, and on the right you can see James and me discussing with our students.