Monthly Archives: August 2008

Becoming Scrum Master

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I spent two days in the beginning of June in a Certified ScrumMaster course which was held in the Helsinki. I was very fortunate as the course was led by two brilliant experts: co-creator of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland and Agile Development consultant, Jens Østergaard.

I have been involved in Scrum projects for few years now. My experience has been based on books, articles and blogs on the subject. On the course I was able to share my experiences with other ScrumMasters and I got really good ideas that I took back with me to improve our team’s Scrum process.

It was really valuable to listen Mr. Sutherland’s “war stories” as he has a long track record on coaching many software development teams in wide variety of companies. It was also a pleasure to listen to and have training sessions led by Mr. Østergaard as he is very talented speaker and knows how to get group’s attention.

On a side note: When I was searching for random blog posts about Scrum, I found this excellent posting by Tobias Mayer: When is Scrum not Scrum

Mobile Trail Explorer v1.12 Released

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It’s only handful of days since last release, but I decided to release the v1.12 so soon as the v1.11 contained few bugs that were blocking few critical features, like adding a new waypoint and changing display settings.

You can download the new release from here or here. New version also contains a new languages, French and Dutch. You can now also change the language if you want to use other then phone default language. Thanks for the contributions and test reports reported on Google Groups discussions.

Mobile Trail Explorer v1.11

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Here it is, a new release of Mobile Trail Explorer. Here are the release notes for this release:

  • Renamed “Waypoints” to “Places” (Issue 92)
  • Filename uses datestamp with seconds
  • User can add audio-markers
  • Configurable action keys (# and * keys)
  • New speedometer screen (Issue 112)
  • Support different grid formats (Contributed by Kaspar Mösinger)
  • Encoding problems with KML import (Issue 120, Contribution from Bastian)
  • Translations to German, (partial) Finnish and default English (Thanks to Patrick)
  • …Plus tens of bug fixes and smaller features

Trail Explorer v1.11

Big thanks goes to all contributors and the “core” dev team as well.

You can download the latest binaries either from Google Code project page or from the Trail Explorer page, here. Report any bugs or ideas on the Google Group.