Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

I’m currently learning the PHP framework Symfony 3. The Symfony documentation is excellent for a quick start, but the first serious HTML form I wanted to build touched some ill-documented parts, made me file a bogus bug report (sorry guys) and took me about 20 hours to implement. So here’s how I did it. I…

Adam Ard – Why Scrum is the Wrong Way to Build Software: “1. Because all product decision authority rests with the “Product Owner”, Scrum disallows engineers from making any product decisions and reduces them to grovelling to product management for any level of inclusion in product direction. 2. Scrum, in accounting for all the engineer’s…

Gerry McGovern – If the customer really was king: “Are the most powerful people in your organization those who interact most with your current customers? Are these people the most respected and highest paid? […] The customer isn’t just king in a digital economy; the customer is dictator. Those organizations that deliver an excellent experience…

In addition to my software development and architecture tasks, I’m growing into the “product manager” role – though it’s not yet clear what that means: bookkeeping of customer complaints and feature requests, coordinating product decisions and making sure everyone in the company has a say, or pushing my own ideas? Probably a bit of everything……