Temenos Workshop bei Mayflower

Nachdem nun nach fast einem Jahr Elternzeit mein beruflicher Wiedereinstieg unmittelbar bevorsteht, bekam ich vor einigen Wochen eine Einladung von meinem Chef, an einem Temenos Workshop teilzunehmen.
Allein die Tatsache, dass ich keinen blassen Schimmer hatte um was es sich bei Temenos überhaupt handelt, hat schon meine Neugierde geweckt. Ein kurzer Blick auf die Temenos Website und ich war zwar immer noch nicht wirklich schlauer was Temenos im Detail ist, aber ich sah in dem Workshop eine Chance zur Teamentwicklung und Stärkung und mein Interesse war da.

An dem Tag als der Workshop dann tatsächlich stattfand kam natürlich wieder alles anders als geplant: ich war total erkältet, mein Sohn hatte mich Nachts auf Trab gehalten und der Hund hat beim morgendlichen Spaziergang komplett vergessen was es heißt zu folgen. Dementsprechend war meine Motivation, als ich um 9 Uhr in der Früh, mit Augenringen und 3 Packungen Taschentücher ausgerüstet, im Mayflower Büro aufschlug, auf dem Tiefpunkt angekommen.
Ich malte mir einen sehr anstrengenden und fordernden Workshop aus, der meine volle Konzentration und Kraft kosten würde, die ich in diesem Moment einfach nicht hatte. Dass mich Temenos am Ende mit positiver Energie und Kraft füllen würde war zu diesem Zeitpunkt für mich nicht vorstellbar. Weiterlesen

MongoDB – the pitfalls and how to avoid them

When we first thought about writing this post we were rather tempted to title it „MongoDB – 10 things I hate about you“, but that wouldn’t be fair after all.

We learned the hard way how painful it can be to replace a working MySQL installation with a mongoDB, especially in a large scale project environment, but blaming mongoDB for that would be like blaming a microwave for not being able to prepare an exquisite 3-course menu.
So we won’t (or at least we do not intend to) write your common mongoDB rent, especially because in the end we were able to make it work. But this won’t be a praise on the new hip database either.
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21.12. Agile Developer Skills (ADS)

Last week I had the chance to attend an Agile Developer Skills Workshop in Berlin.

The 3 day workshop is, next to a Scrum Master or PO Certification, a prerequisite for the Certified Scrum Developer, short CSD.

I was very excited about the ADS workshop and I found it an intersting approach to hold a workshop which focusses on developers rather than on the management side of scrum. Especially as in my experience all the other scrum workshops mainly concentrate on the rituals, artefacts and organisation of Scrum, without giving answers on how to develop high quality software.

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Summer of PHProjekt Addons

as in Germany the days are getting shorter and we are close to
the first snowfall,
we think it is about time to bring the
Summer of PHProjekt Addons to an end.

In the last 3 months we managed to release the following 15 Addons
which are supported by PHProjekt 5.2.2 and PHProjekt 5.2.3.
Here is a list of the released addons with a short description:

  • Protokoll Addon:

    With the help of the ‚Protokolladdon‘ it is very easy to keep
    your minutes in a standardised layout and send them to the
    recipients in pdf-format.

  • PBridge:

    PBridge enables you to synchronize your project trees between
    PHProjekt and ganttproject, a graphical open source java tool
    for your desktop. With PBridge you can export projects to
    ganttproject, work on them locally and re-import them into PHProjekt.

  • Outlook Synchronisation Tool:

    With the help of this addon you can sync your PHProjekt contacts,
    tasks, notes and calendar entries with Outlook.

  • Thinkbook:

    Thinkbook supports you by building complex user manuals or other
    editions of chapter based handbooks.

  • PFolders:

    PFolders is a WebDAV Interface for PHProjekt which enables you
    to access the file repository of the filemanager from PHProjekt
    without the web interface of PHProjekt.

  • RSS Reader:
    With this addon you can integrate your own rss reader in PHProjekt

  • Dokuwiki Addon:
    This addons allows you to integrate the DokuWiki Version 2006-11-06 in your PHProjekt installation.

  • PTimecontrol:
    PTimecontrol is a very useful asset to the PHProjekt timecard which
    allows you to generate extensive analysis of your working time,
    overtime and Project bookings. It considers all off time entries
    from the vacation addon and local hoidays.

  • Vacation Addon:
    With the help of this addon you can report the vacations, sick days
    and other offtime of your employees.

  • Reporting Addon:
    This addon allows you to automatically generate project reports.
    Those reports are available in PDF format. Due to a number of
    setting options you can adjust them to your individual needs.

  • Test Addon:
    This Addon helps you to easily design and keep track of
    your software tests.

  • PocketPC Synchronisation Tool:
    This addon allows you to synchronize your Outlook contacs,
    events, notes and todos on your Pocket PC with PHProjekt.

  • Scrum Projektmanagement:

    The scrum addon allows the administration of scrum based projects using the scrum methodology.
    Teams with agile development have a pretty good tool to perform their project management with scrum, including meetings, product backlogs, burndown charts and much more.

  • Billing Addon:
    With the help of this addon you can automatically generate bills
    based on your PHProjekt project bookings.

  • Bookmarks Addon:
    This addon helps you to easily administrate your external bookmarks.

We hope that the published addons are useful for you.