Certified ScrumMaster

I became a Certified ScrumMaster today via the Scrum Alliance. I know certifications are worth very little, but the training and exam prep was definitely very useful and, more importantly, I’m implementing Scrum techniques on the new project I’m working on: Planning the sprint ahead, daily scrums, sprint reviews and trying to remove obstacles for the team.

Tags: agile, Certification, scrum

Running Jenkins jobs sequentially

I am a huge fan of the Jenkins continuous integration tool, using it not just for continuous integration, but also continuous delivery, server monitoring and performance testing.

Although using Jenkins is normally a breeze, I recently had a need to run several Jenkins jobs sequentially and it proved a little trickier than expected, so I thought worth posting about.

Basically, I wanted to call a database backup job before calling the deploy build job, which obviously shouldn’t be done in parallel. After a bit of research, I found a number of ways to have Jenkins run jobs sequentially.
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Tags: agile, ci, continuousintegration, devops, hudson, jenkins

Silicon Valley Code Camp Notes

I am at the Silicon Valley Code Camp at the moment.

I will try to post some notes on the various talks I attend below…

Day 1:

• Session 1: JavaScript
• Session 2: Easing into Agile
• Session 3: Building Better Tests in Java
• Session 4: What is Python?

Day 2:

• Session 1: Basics of Threading
• Session 2: Introduction to Grails

Tags: agile, codecamp, Java, JavaScript, python, Testing, threading