Carl Bruiners
I specialise in all things Agile (XP, Kanban, Lean), in particular Scrum. I have a passion for taking on 'problem' projects / teams and turning them into a sucess as well as promoting automated test driven practices.
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I am an enthusiastic, dedicated and accomplished Systems / application Architect, Project / Product Manager, Development Manager and Application Developer who thrives on delivering first class products.
My background is that of a developer who became a product / project manager and the head of application development. I am a certified SCRUM Master and have solid knowledge of PRINCE2.
I Work well on own initiative and can demonstrate high levels of motivation and organisation required to meet targets and deadlines. I have excellent interpersonal skills and communicate well at all levels.
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- Agile Awards UK 2012 – Nominated…
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- Mr Ching keynote speaker at Scrum Gathering Atlanta 2012
- Is limiting what my partner can buy a bad thing?
- Dubai
- Heston and Ramsey got it so wrong…. and why Scrum could help in the kitchen
- Mr Eddie Thomas
- Big update coming for the really simple Agile tool
- A really simple Agile tool – DB structure
- The really simple Agile tool – update
- Book review: Kanban by David Anderson
- Introducing the really simple Agile tool
- Agile Edge presentation
- Agile test curve
- Personal online security
- Over the GUI test automation, Excel and a little VBA
- Identifying an Epic using apple strudel
- Reap the QA rewards by reducing defects
- Development stuff
- Difference between UI and UX
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Product Management and Product Owners
After a conversation with a very, very close friend, I realised that the area's I have failed to blog about are;
- Product Management
- Product Owners
As of this weekend I will make the effort to write at least 2 blog posts per week covering the topics around both roles, as there is soooo much I can write on the subjects.
Visual Retrospective Generator (beta)
As we had to delay the launch of Scrum Solutions until 11th August we didn't want our customers to think that we had forgotten about them.
While the rest of the team are busy working on iOS, Andriod and Win mobile projects, I was busy listening to my followers and by far the most popular article on my site was the article and code for generating the Visual Retrospective. At the time I had promised to write an application that will help you generate the visual retrospective.
That application is now ready (admittingly in beta, while I sort out some of the format defects).
Visual Retrospective Generator
MediaWiki Retrospective Example
[Download]
The application allows you to output your retrospective's in the following formats;
- HTML - Visual retrospective wall
- HTML - List style
- MediaWiki
- XML
- CSV
- PNG
The application will allow you to output to multiple formats in 1 click, useful for generating a visual retrospective as well as keeping your PM happy with a CSV formatted list 
. For what all the options do read the READ ME Visual Retrospective Generator text file that's included in the package.
Quick start tip: Check HTML and check the 'Copy support files' to generate your first Visual Retrospective.
Once I (or the team, nod, nod, wink, wink) have fixed the defects there are some other features in our product backlog for this, I'll post a new blog each time its updated.
And one final thing, this tool is free and will always be free. The only time there will be any costs is for companies wanting to integrate the tool (through its API) into their solution or if a commercial company wants to remove the Scrum Solutions logo or link.
Requirements: .NET 4, Windows XP/Vista/Win 7
Missing a feature? Any negative / positive feedback? Please leave a comment
Proud of my son
Though I don't normally blog about my children, yesterday my son was asked to start at the Nottingham Forest academy in September. As a very proud father I can't express how proud I am of my boy. Well done son.