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Still going. I try to keep it agile, but I wouldn't call it Scrum anymore. My team is spread out geographically and full of specialists (iPhone guy, web guy, server side guy) and we can't even lock in on a two week fixed scope because things are so fluid. I find Kan Ban to be interesting but but it's hard to wrangle contractors into any process they aren't used to.

I loved Scrum for the team I was on. Without a real Product Owner, we always still had this pain point, but it was much less painful than before we were trying to do any of it. It reminds me of that Churchill quote, "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried." I wouldn't go that far with Scrum, but if you expanded it to the whole world of 'agility' - Scrum, KanBan, Lean, XP - you could say, "Agile is the worst form of software process except for all those others that have been tried."

Congratulations! It was great for me because we had a development team that was eager to try something different. We weren't trying to migrate from anything rigid like Waterfall - we were trying to migrate from slapdash to something that felt like some kind of control.

It's no small feat getting everyone on board, however. Change is hard. I think it's like a fat man being told about a diet. (The organization is the fat man and the diet is "change"). He's listening, thinking to himself, "Yes, yes yes!" but when it comes time to actually DO it, there are all kinds of reasons why it turns out to be difficult to really do. It's not that he discovers it's not the right thing to do. It's just hard to do it.

Some succeed, but you have to be ready.

I like this matrix - I really do. I agree with most of it. There are significant things missing, like skilled project management, not just "communication", and the ability to solve complex problems rather than having a complex toolkit. Having the toolkit does not grant the wisdom of solving the problems you need the tools for in the first place.

And, I agree with the above sentiments: some interviewER is going to beat some interviewEE over the head with these bullet items and the interviewER is going to reject a good candidate. The log(n) candidates are rare, and could still not be able to function in an organization. Someone could be log(n) and still be a sequestered mushroom.

I'll hire someone with solid n^1.5 skills if they can also work in a group and solve the problems at hand rather than spouting they know Erlang.

Spring

I guess that's the reason why SUN was acquired by Oracle, coz they don't make much money of the Java

Good point Jason. Following patterns just for the sake of following patterns ... it's easy to fall into that pattern. :) What do you mean by "I've never really thought about patterns of how"?

Interesting ... There's too much politics going on and I can't help but think Oracles law suit against Google is just an attempt to stall the uptake of Android. Larry and Steve are in bed together.

In short, I've found linode to be a better admin console than slicehost, the server performance seems much better, even though I haven't benchmarked it yet .. and there is of course the decreased cost. The admin console includes features like charts for server load (cpu, I/O, network), automatic allerts for performance issues, control over disc partitions, DNS, server stack scripts and lots more ... you can also choose from collection of locations in US and Europe for your server to be hosted. It's awesome ....

Jumba has been an utter disappointment. After using Jumba for a couple months I have been left frustrated and disappointed. (http://www.jumba.com.au) The list of problems is long, but here are a few reasons why I'm moving away from Jumba. Thankfully I have found green pastures and linode.com .. more about them later. (probably in another post)

1. The customer service is not helpful, they talk in vague generalities and often quite rude.
2. The tech support managed to completely delete a server on me after I had spent all day setting it up. It's a long story ... I was running a centos box and wanted to change the OS to ubuntu. That was not possible through thier convoluted admin console, so the tech support told me the only way I could do that was to delete that server and create a new one. After deleting the centos box I was unable to then create a new Ubuntu system. Rang customer support again and they told me it was a provisioning problem and they wouldn't be able to create any new servers for a week. After they'd just told me to delete my existing server and create a new one this came as a bit of a shock. Finally after getting bounced around from sales to tech support to accounts, I finally got them to create the new ubuntu server for me. Spent the whole day setting it up only to wake up the next day and find the server had been deleted. No consolation was offered by jumba ...
3. The the accounting system is not linked with the server administration console. This provides a convoluted workflow when trying to manage servers.
4. No DNS hosting is included with VPS services (Slicehost and Linode include DNS hosting)
5. $25 administration charge is applied when closing accounts

Sorry I didn't go through and update all my old blog posts when I moved it. RbMan is available on riaforge at the following URL: http://rbman.riaforge.com/