Rothi's Blog

I'm writing this blog entry after my experience when trying to set up a scrum-like process at my current company. I recently stopped my efforts and want to discuss with you how you estimate: When is the time you must admit you failed or simply when is the time to stop fighting? But back to history: After some painful project failures last year I enganged a little bit into agile software development and read a lot. Like many others I was immediately fascinated by the idea and concept (and I am still). So my boss asked me to take four colleagues for three months to evaluate different processes and develop a software development process fitting our department and company. We developed what's called a "Scrumbut" - Scrum with some adoptions to local structures and a little bit of more focus on planning than in "classic Scrum". Well done, we reached our goal at the end of March and then were heading for the first project to show how the process works. I was enga...

Yesterday I attended the Keynotes to the Mix developer Conference in Las Vegas via Live Stream. They showed quite amazing stuff there using HTML5 with hardware acceleration in IE9. Folks at Microsoft really seemed to scorn Google's Chrome - showed up several Demos where Google Chrome was lame and IE9 kicked ass. Was quite funny but that's not what made me write this. I attended the keynotes to see where the Microsoft trip goes to. At my current company Krones I have the task to propose a graphic framework for the future. There are lots of native applications, some using Win Forms, some even using old VB. Others are ASP.NET applications and run in the browser only. We'll have to port these applications and find a common graphic plattform for them: Or almost common. Some time ago I hit the PRISM framework making it possible to have one architecture for your WPF and Silverlight applications under the hood. I made some small steps with Silverlight 3 in 2009 and was quite am...