Scrum Master

I'm now a certified Scrum master. Just in case you need Scrum training or Scrum-oriented coaching in your agile & iterative projects, I'll be most happy to support you.
Further info:

• Scrum Alliance
• ControlChaos, original Scrum website
  

Titelseite der iX 08'2006...

Das erste Mal in meiner Laufbahn (ok, es ist eher ein Wanderweg) als Schreiberling hat einer meiner Artikel es auf die Titelseite der Zeitschrift iX gebracht: Auf nach Analytistan heisst er - die Ausgabe gibt's ab 13. Juli beim Zeitschriftenhändler. Den ersten drei Kommentatoren schenke ich ein Freiexemplar...

Ergänzung (5.Aug.06): Ein Teil des Artikels steht nun bei heise.de online...

Fine Use of (integrated) Camera

At first I thought the integrated camera of my MacBook was playstuff - but finally I'm convinced: A little app called booxter helps me organize my (pretty fat!) bookshelf. The sole problem I had was: "how to I get all my books entered into the app"?

Camera-to-the-rescue: Booxter recognizes the barcode with the ISBN-number printed on every books' backside. I was really astonished that it works - no hassle...

The process is now pure fun: hold the book into the "eye" of the MacBook - wait for the "click" - and a few seconds later any of 10 configurable search engines (Amazon, Library-of-Congress etc) returns title, author, cover, description and other useful information about your book. Took me 5 seconds per book (min), 15 max. Deal, isn't it?

For 15 Euro I call that a bargain for guys who love books and need assistance in keeping overview. 5 star rating!