As I talked about briefly in my last blog entry, I’m currently working on a book with the IBM QSE Scrum Community and two colleagues at IBM. After many months of… negotiations… begging… collaboration… oh god, I’m at a loss for words to describe what we’ve been through to be able to get this available to people. One day, I should blog about this. But finally, today… July 23rd 2009… The day is finally here when we can publish our chapters online and make them available for external feedback.
Things to do, chapters to write…
- Monday, 08 June 2009 21:04
- Written by Steffan Surdek
As some of you may have noticed, I don’t have a chance to update the site often. That’s because earlier this year, I joined a group of people that are writing a book on how to use Scrum in a distributed environment. This has been a great experience for me up to now. In this blog entry, I’ll share some of the joys and pain I’ve had since I joined this group of people.
Post-talk thoughts – Agile Montreal – 28 May 2009
- Thursday, 28 May 2009 21:11
- Written by Steffan Surdek
I presented at the Agile Montreal user group meeting tonight. I had a really great time, talked for a bit over 1.5h straight. Basically I took my developerWorks article on Real Life Agile Planning experiences and turned it into a French presentation. People had good questions and I hope I provided good answers to them. As usual, the first five to ten minutes were a bit stressful as it was the first time I was giving this talk. I think overall the flow was good. The attendance was pretty good (20+ people).
If you took the time to come and see my presentation, thank you for coming. I appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedules to come see me present. Thank you as well for being so gracious to me, I hope I made it fun and interesting for you. I really enjoyed myself tonight and would have no reservations coming back for another presentation. Please feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions or comments on the talk. If I get enough comments, I may create an additional blog entry for them.
So you wanna be a writer eh?
- Thursday, 02 April 2009 21:51
- Written by Steffan Surdek
I’ve been rather neglectful of the site in the last month or so. I’ve been doing a lot of writing at work and it’s been consuming a lot of my time. I felt like doing a bit of a silly blog entry tonight. I was talking with a colleague this afternoon, let’s call her Anne, who asked me to write up a paragraph or two on how I got started writing. Of course, I could not just leave it at that, would have been too easy… So for your reading pleasure, here’s a mock interview I wrote tonight that she can use as input.
Where to find my content?
Here are some sites where you will find my content on the web.
