Archive for July, 2007

Evil Behavior with Unchecked Checked Exceptions

Anders NordÃ¥s shows how to throw a checked exception without declaring a throws clause. The method uses some inherently evil mechanisms (the name of the class “sun.misc.Unsafe” should be a tip of), and like Anders says, this should probably never be used in production.

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Scrum: It’s all about priority

Why can Scrum deliver surprising results already in the first month of adoption? Because it helps the team focus on what’s really important.

We had Jeff Sutherland visit Oslo XP meetup a few weeks back. Jeff is co-creator of the Scrum method (with Ken Schwaber) and CTO of PatientKeeper, a US health information company. His presentation focused on the effects of Scrum on distributed teams, and on the effects of adopting Scrum in projects. Specifically, he was talking about the adoption of Scrum in the CMM level 5 company Systematic.

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