Continuous Integration and CruiseControl history

Luiza Pagliari and I, Paulo Caroli, gave a talk on the history of Continuous Integration (CI) and CruiseControl at the 2010 FISL conference (International Free Software Forum).

We talked to Martin Fowler and other colleagues at Thoughtworks and to gather (and validate) data on CI and CruiSeControl history. Below is short presentation with this data.

Continuous Integration and CruiseControl history

Please contact me if you are interested in the CI history topic and blog about it. I will add your links to this blog post.

SID (Scrum In Depth) First Run

As mentioned in my earlier blog entry, I gave my first SID training in Bern, Switzerland on June 5th/6th.

The two days were exciting in many aspects. The audience compiled of ten managers, programmers and analysts from different domains was already well on its way to become agile. This meant that I had to answer a couple of tough questions. But hey, this is the spice I really like to add to my professional life, especially if the outcome is right. Also, I was concerned that I might run too fast through all the material. But, the opposite occurred – there were still slides left at the end of the first day. I was about one hour behind. The class was very forthcoming and gave me additional time on either day to catch up. So, next time I will have a closer look at the time to make sure that I keep my time box. Isn’t Scrum all about time boxing!
So overall, I am very pleased with how the first run went. I managed to communicate the meaning of being a ScrumMaster and what to expect when you roll it out. I got feed back from a couple of attendees that they passed the test. Again, this is like a high five for me as the test is not trivial and requires a deep understanding of Scrum basics and principles.

Best, I got tons of of great feed back -- mostly positive ;) -- which I will incorporate into future runs (Inspect and Adapt). In August I will meet with Ken Schwaber to address and clarify a couple of points.

For me, everything is working out great right now. Scrum.org is an excellent organization which is absolutely committed to high standards and quality. Working with Ken turns out to be great fun and best, I really love to spread the Agile/Scrum gospel.

You can check out my upcoming trainings at http://courses.scrum.org/about/ralph-jocham
or drop me an email for special arrangements ralph (at) jocham (dot) net

Continuous Integration adoption path

Luiza Pagliari (my colleague at Thoughtworks Brazil) and I, Paulo caroli, will be giving a talk on the history of Continuous Integration and CruiseControl at the 2010 FISL conference (International Free Software Forum) held in Brazil.

Caio Kinzel, another colleague at Thoughtworks Brazil, have shared a blog entry with me that I find really useful. It is the Continuous Integration Maturity Model created at last year’s CITCON (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference).

My friend and co-worker Patrick Kua have presented a similar topic in the XP 2009 conference: XP2009 – Climbing the Dreyfus Ladder of Agile Practices.

I am not sure I will use these for the session to be presented at the FISL conference. But these models are definitely helpful for Agile teams to understand the Continuous Integration adoption path.