Archive for February, 2008

Great Quotes For The Agile Project Wall

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

At a recent internal Capgemini tradeshow, we had the pleasure of using some great quotes that really benefit working the way I like the best: Small agile teams where we can show and tell — make working software and prototypes very fast in close collaboration with clients. Mads and I decided to add a few […]

How I keep Informed Without My RSS Reader Killing Me

Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

I got this question today from Lars Pind, who is a brilliant former developer now coaching other software developers: 6. Which blogs or websites do you read to keep up-to-date at work? And i realized that i have just had more than 6 months of RSS reader boycot (inspired by Peter Krantz). Until recently, my […]

3 Simple Usability Tips For Developers

Monday, February 11th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

It takes a lifetime to become an expert on the usability field. Many developers may be interested in creating usable, successful applications. But the entry barrier is sometimes too high — it’s easier to rely on the usability experts than to know about usable applications themselves. Although I’m really passionate about usability, I really understand […]

Design Guide or HTML Markup Guide

Friday, February 8th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

At a recent project, there was a requirement to describe the CSS used on a site, as a documentation, other developers could use. We decided to go a bit further — not only documenting the CSS classes — but making a guide that developers could find easy to use. Also we wanted developers with little […]

Data Visualisation

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

What a treasury of old and new maps, images, graphs — all you can imagine. www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/ (found via wikipedia: information graphics) Actually, I’m in the middle of preparing a workshop where some of these visualizations can serve as background inspiration material. Update later same day: Add to this the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods: Just […]

Selling Ruby, Rails, and Agile Project Management

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 by Jesper Rønn-Jensen

My colleague Mads and myself made an internal “sales show” for the way we use Ruby on Rails to deliver web projects that are fast, small, agile prototypes in close collaboration with clients. Here are a few photos from our internal Capgemini kickoff: The sign says “Test yourself: Project manager — can you handle it”. […]