After coming back from the ScrumMaster training (BorisGloger, ScrumCooking: Jürgen Margetich) in Munich on the 10. & 11. September, I told my wife about it — including Magic Estimation and Planning Poker.
Continue reading…11.10.2009 18:18:42
I’ll be on the road attending Dieter Rösner’s “Scrum Moderationstraining” in Vienna on the 8th and 9th of October, and in Berlin to attend the Agile Testing Days.
29.09.2009 15:19:38
Malcolm Gladwell’s presentation On Spaghetti Sauce was filmed in February 2004 and posted to TED in September 2006. That’s five and three years ago.
(Please note: The following text might contain spoilers, so how about taking the less than 20 minutes and watch the presentation and continue reading then?)
One of the findings he presents is this: “People don’t know what they want!”
The data he talks about comes from the food industry: Spaghetti sauce, mustard, coffee. Asking people he said, is not good enough to find out what they really want. He reports that, if asked, everyone (of the audience) would say that they like a “dark, rich, hearty roast” coffee, even though only about 25-27% would actually prefer this kind of coffee. And he says that no-one would ever say he liked milky weak coffee.
28.09.2009 18:46:18
