Scrum and Technical Debt

This years Smidig-conference is over, and I've had a week to digest the impressions. Overall it was a great experience. Lots of lightning talks, open space discussions and even some beer. My talk on Scrum and Technical Debt created some fuzz in the following open space discussion, so I guess it must have stroken s chord in some of the listeners :)

Janniche from Bekk challenged me on my claims, and frankly I think she may have a point. She argued that if tech debt seems to hide away in scrum, we are using scrum in the wrong manner. Technical debt should be up front, and thus decrease the focus factor. It requries developers to be honest and professional about their craftmanship. So maybe we should spend some hours on tutoring instad of repairing old defects ..

The presentation is unfortunately not available on video, but the slides can be found at http://www.slideshare.net/harals/scrum-skjuler-teknisk-gjeld-2277766

Time Snapper

I’ve been using TimeSnapper for a few days, and I’m definitively amused by it’s fancyness. Even though I’ve been present at work for perhaps 30 hours, it reveals that I’ve spent nearly a third of that time away from my workstation.

Moreover, it reveals that I spend most of my day inside if the www with opera. I haven’t been able to break that time slot down, but I’m afraid that most of my opera-time is devoted to issue tracking.