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Adding an alt-text to an image in Liferay 6.1
In Liferay, images in the Documents and Media library have a Description field. Using this field to fill the alt-property of an img-tag is not so trivial as we would hope. This post describes how you can do it.
Mini XPDay 2012 – a full and interesting day
On April 23rd, the Mini XPDay 2012 was held in conference center Kapellerput, in Heeze (NL). I went there to (re)connect with some people, and learn more about Agility and myself. It was a good day with interesting sessions in a lot of different areas.
Impediments or Tasks?
I recently had the opportunity to do a short experiment with self-organisation. I was a replacement Scrum Master for a team and did not have a lot of time for them, so I decided for myself not to accept any impediments, but to put them on the board as tasks.
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GOTO conference Amsterdam – report of day 1
Experiences with a small scrum team.
I have made some observations on issues you can encounter with small scrum teams. Scrum adds some overhead to a project and developers might have some trouble with seeing the use of this overhead. This increases the lure from disciplined software building back to uncontrolled hacking. The challenges I have seen are:
- “Storypoints estimation is too much overhead.”
- “Extra work for the customer? Why register it, it’s just five minutes of work!”
- “Standups are not really useful when you are alone.”
The Agile Manifesto is 10 years old!
Context
Ten years after the creation of the Agile Manifesto in Snowbird resort, Utah (USA), a number of the original signees and a bigger number of other Agile big shots came together at the same spot to celebrate the successes, reflect on the results, and look at the future.
I wasn’t there (no invitation for me, alas), but I’d like to summarise the things I read about this gathering.
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