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Erik Gfesser

📍 Greater Chicago Area

Past Book Review (December 22, 2007): "Agile Estimating and Planning"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Agile Estimating and Planning, by Mike Cohn, Prentice Hall, 2005, reposted here: This Robert C. Martin Series text by Mike Cohn has been unfairly criticized by previous reviewers. The content in general is very well written, and the

Scrum: What's in a Name?

Scrumpdillyishus or Scrumdidilyumptious? While pondering potential titles for this blog post about my work experiences with software development methodologies over the years and my eventual usage of the Scrum process framework, I eventually recalled the Dairy Queen slogan, "Scrumpdillyishus", and thought that perhaps I might use it as

New Book Review: "Version Control with Git (Second Edition)"

New book review for Version Control with Git (Second Edition), by Jon Loeliger and Matthew McCullough, O'Reilly, 2012, reposted here: Solid discussion of Git for someone like me who has primarily been using CVS and SVN (Subversion) throughout their career, and has since started using Git. While I

New Book Review: "Building Microservices"

New book review for Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: As explained in the preface to this book, "microservices" are small, autonomous services that work together, each of which is focused on doing one thing well. While the topic of

Personal Reading List: 2Q2015

My personal reading list for April, May, and June 2015. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) AngularJS by Example, by Chandermani, Packt Publishing, 2015. Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman, O'Reilly, 2015. Practical Machine Learning: A New Look at

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Training

Notes taken for posterity during two days of Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) training recently provided by Juniper Hill Associates at The Ohio State University earlier this month. Much like my notes for Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training 3 years ago which you can find here and here, these notes

Past Book Review (October 21, 2007): "Software by Numbers"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Software by Numbers: Low-Risk, High-Return Development , by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang, Prentice Hall, 2003, reposted here: This book caught my attention because I was searching for a decent book on ROI and software development, and Dr. Jane

Strange Loop 2014:Keynote: Our Shared Joy of Programming

Peabody Opera House September 19, 2014: 4:50 PM – 5:30 PM From the promotional materials: Our Shared Joy of Programming Have you ever had flying dreams? Or dreams that all of a sudden you finally understood it “all”? These feelings are echoed in the joy we experience in learning,

Strange Loop 2014:Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza

Peabody Opera House September 18, 2014: 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM From the promotional materials: Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most

Strange Loop 2014:Sessions Planning

The following are the most probable and least probable sessions that I expect to attend during each time slot of the Strange Loop 2014 conference next week, although anything is possible, and I can be swayed. Thursday September 18 7:30am – 8:45am Registration 8:45am – 9:00am Welcome – Alex