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This Blog Has Moved!

Right, so yes, five years ago I moved to github pages, and never bothered to redirect any of these pages there. Now I've moved on from there, and... Finally I am using my real domain, trishagee.com . My blog is now at trishagee.com/blog .  See you there!

Scrum

I think the statement that struck me the most when I was on the Certified Scrum Master course was:  the start of the project is when you know the least about what you're doing . Which of course is absolutely true. So why do we come up with extensive requirements, detailed design, and fixed plans at this point of time?  We haven't put anything into place yet, we haven't played with the code, the customer hasn't seen anything of what we're promising to deliver. If we think about it this way, suddenly the waterfall method makes even less sense (assuming people do still like to work this way). How many times have you just played with a bit of code, done a prototype, a "hello world", knocked up a basic screen, before you can even give your manager some finger-in-the-air estimates?  I don't know about you but I'm not comfortable unless I have played a bit to get the feel of something before even looking at someone who asks those questions! The empirical

BSc (Hons) SCJP SCWCD CSM

What are our thoughts on putting all the letters after your name in a CV/resume?   Pretentious?  Or the only reasonable time to use all those letters?

Certification

This week I acquired some more letters which I can add after my name when I'm feeling pretentious:  - SCWCD  - CSM I'm feeling a bit over-saturated at the moment as you might imagine, especially since Wednesday's exam was a detailed technical one and Thursday and Friday were spent learning about development methodologies - well, one specifically I suppose. What I need now is a real project to apply it all.  It might be time to tackle that favour I was asked for back at Christmas.

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