Eike at Valtech

I was dead set on hating “Distributed Scrum” on Software Engineering Radio before even listening it. I ended up not being able to because the interview disappointed my expectations in the most pleasant way.

We finally got around to placing our build indicator in the proper position (and just in time for christmas, no less). All of this works courtesy of an Infratec IP power strip, an industrial-grade status indicator light assembly and a hacked-up version of the Hudson Traffic Light plugin that we retrofitted to work with the [...]

…could have been the soundtrack to the most recent assignment I went on.
At least for a suitable definition of London, I guess. As it turns out I ended up about an hour’s train ride from what is considered “London” in the sense of “yes, I want to be there”. Short-termed (i.e. four weeks) as the [...]

At the end of one of many of Gojko’s insightful articles is a line that I’d like to put into focus. He writes: “I don’t know why software development always has to be like something else and why people can’t just take it for a practice in its own right.”
So why? Why is it that [...]