I have had a bit of revelation moment today. I have been thinking and evaluating about my experience with Scrum. For a long time now, I am been in the role of ScrumMaster, and filling in for Product Owner due to accessibility issue. I have come to the conclusion that, it’s really a recipe for failed Scrum implementation.
I am currently on a promotional cross-country car trip for The Lord of the Rings Online. I am actually on vacation on this trip (since I am not on Marketing), but I am doing quite a bit to help out. It’s been fun so far, follow our progress on TwoGuysAndaLOTROCar.com!
When I started using b2evolution, I received quite a few warnings from different people that it’s a giant spam magnet. I gave it a few months and my trackback and comment spam volume is simply enormous, despsite b2′s centralized anti-spam list. I have finally broken down and ported everything over to WordPress. Installation was a snap and only took me a few hours to port my skin over. So far, I am very happy with it 
No wonder it’s so popular!
Our music video, “Linger”, for the Xfire Summer WoW Movie Contest has been chosen as a finalist! Download it here. You would need an Xfire account and the Xfire client in order to download, but it’s free!
Voting has begun! Please go to Studio Amicus’s website for all the links. Thanks to everyone who have given us feedback and helped in making the video!
Our entry to the Xfire Summer Movie Contest for World of Warcraft is finally complete! We were up till 5:30 AM due to encoding and compression issues. When we can release it to the public, it will be available on Studio Amicus. Stay tuned!
We’ve learned a lot about machinima and how badly written software can really drive you nuts 
This is a new category that I will be musing about, Management, about my experience and journey to be a good manager.
I have only been an engineering manager for two years. It’s not until recently that I really looked closely at my management skills and see what I can improve on. I talked with some attendees at the SD Best Practice 2006, some people might think they want to be a manager, unfortunately some for the wrong reasons. Here are some crucial things that you should consider before becoming a manager, let alone a successful one.
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It was an incredible journey to attend SD Best Practices 2006! I found that I have learned more from talking to other attendees and the speakers (most notably Mike Cohn and Johanna Rothman), than from the class materials themselves (even though I have learned a lot from there as well). I salute everyone who had given me insight on how to do better. By virtue of One Minute Manager, I will be sharing some musings as to what I have learned this week.
Questions questions and questions. We had a Q&A session with Ken mostly about implementation of Scrum in various types of projects and environments. The gist of it is there’s really no right answer. That is why Scrum is not a methodology, but rather, a framework that can help you identify the issues, and forces you to resolve them. In every day work, we are faced with numerous impediments and problems that can slow down our work, but often times we ignore them and just accept the inefficiency. Scrum practices exposes them to the maximum level and mandate them be resolved.
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