Time for a culture break today and to discover a bit of the Bavarian culture at its best.
The Lansdhuter Hochzeit is a huge celebration that takes place every 4 years in Landshut, Bavaria. It celebrates the wedding of George the Rich (son of the Duke of Landshut) and Jadwiga (daughter of the King of Poland) which took place in 1475.
For this occasion, a big part of the Landshuters are letting their hair grow and dress-up like people did then. Everything must look authentic and comply to the strict rules of the association that organizes the event. A small village is also built to reconstruct the way things looked like at that time and how people celebrated this wedding by eating, drinking and watching the infamous knight fights.
The result is a beautiful city full of colors and people celebrating this ancestral ceremony with lots to drink and eat.
I took plenty of pictures and put a small selection online: http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchfrog/sets/72157621624331263/
Doing a small search for “laho” will show you a few more…
Just heard about agile software development or Scrum and want to know more about it? Here are 3 books which will get you started and maybe tempt you to take the blue pill:
1. Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide: This one gives you a high level overview of everything agile, including Scrum. Good to get a first basic understanding of agile principles and methodologies / practices around town.
2. Agile Project Management with Scrum: This is the reference book on Scrum written by Ken Schwaber. A must read for anyone who has already a pretty good idea of agile principles and is considering Scrum.
3. For the German speaking audience, Boris Gloger’s book “Scrum: Produkte schnell und zuverlässig entwickeln” provides excellent materials. For the record: I was lucky to have Boris as my trainer for my CSM training.
What would you recommend for someone willing to know more about agile software development?
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If you work in a matrix organization, it may well be that you have a small pool of designers doing all UX work. They usually have work coming out of their ears and are put under heavy pressure to feed development teams with HTML (or other) templates.
Since UX is actually a core element of a product, how does it all fit with your definition of done? Do you usually wait to have all UX items delivered before starting the project? Is the designer also delivering incrementally? Either way, how does the development team cope with this?
In short, how do you do it and why?
Update: The discussion has started in the LinkedIn Scrum Practitioners group.
