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 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
- Agile ALM
- ITIL, SLA’s and Agile
- Continuous delivery, test automation and UA(T)
- Agile Expert @ GE
- The anatomy of a good story
- Reminded me of GG
- Steve Jobs – The worlds greatest and worst product manager
- User story breakdown
- Professional pride
- Success is having good leadership
- Product Management and Product Owners
- Visual Retrospective Generator (beta)
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- Clarke Ching
- Karine Bosch
- Mike Cohn
- Peter Drayton
- Robert Lindström
- Scott Gu
- Simon Cromarty
- Stu Nicholls
- Tobias Zimmergren's
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Keep your SCRUM wall fresh
A SCRUM wall that represents your desk often means (if its like my desk 
) that it needs a refresh, do it daily (and encourage the team to pro-actively move cards when they change state) , I normally get the team to refresh their wall immediately after the morning daily update.
On a side note, I don't allow more than 1 or 2 cards in the 'In Progress' section of the wall, alot of developers complain about this, but I always ask them if they are using 2 keyboards at the same time? It is IMPOSSIBLE to physically be working on more than two items at any given time. If you find there is any possibility of a developer working on multiple task cards at the same time, then the team has poorly constructed its task card desk for the SPRINT, task cards should be independent of other cards, coupling of cards should be frowned upon.