This presentation by Ciprian Stăvar was entirely in Romanian. Luckily I was provided a translator – Don Ciuchete. This was an awesome experience as I got to really delve into the mind of Romanian developers and companies through Ciprian’s talk and Don’s translation, though of course some of the emotion of the talk was lost  Read more »

Here are the slides from my talk – Agile Teams Lead Business Innovation – from Open Agile Romania. 0

The fishbowl discussion was something new for me. The rules are: There is always one and only one open seat Anyone can get up, sit in the seat, and join in on the conversation You must be in a seat in order to talk So it’s like a panel discussion with a large amount of  Read more »

Vlad Stan is an online entrepreneur and angel investor, and spoke with us about his experience in Silicon Valley. Lot’s of tech people One word to sum it up: disruption. Perspective – they have a different perspective – build it, get them there, and they will use it Adopters – they are the early ones  Read more »

Daniel Nicolescu is the Chief Product Officer at Avangate and GECAD ePayment. His Open Agile Romania talk focused on cross-functional Agile teams. As a Product Officer, or a Product Manager, you deal with pretty much every facet of the business. So you gotta have people skills, and understanding of a lot of things – technical,  Read more »

Janet Gregory is the co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams. I had the great opportunity to share a cab from the airport with Janet, along with a few breakfasts. She’s a great person to speak with, very knowledgeable, and not dogmatic (my kind of person). After speaking with her  Read more »

Michel Goldenberg is the co-founder of Scrum User Group in Montreal, and an Agile coach. His talk was on working with the Product Owner to show ROI from the backlog. Traditionally we’ve spent a lot of money in the beginning of the project to learn about what it is we’ll be doing. This is called  Read more »

Iulia Rusu provided an experience report on a large hospital information system project she worked on in Siemens. They have a large team – 38 people in total, and a number of Scrum teams. They have three models of working: Models 1 and 3 are working great, however model 2 has too many people and  Read more »

Radu Ticiu runs the Timisoara Software Business Incubator. Timisoara is the second largest city in Romania, and is in the west of the country. The business incubator provides office rental, connectivity to communication networks, business networking, assistance in entrepreneurial development, consultancy, promotion and secretarial services, and much more to software development company Radu started out  Read more »

Paul Klipp of Lunar Logic Polska shared his experience of using Kanban for the past 5 months. Typical burndown chart due that Paul would see to nothing being “done” until the end of the sprint. What is Kanban? Visualize workflow Limit work in process Measure and manage flow Some tools used: Kanban board (physical or  Read more »