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"Stay firmly in your own path and dare; be wild two hours a day!" - Paul Gauguin

Let me introduce myself:

My name is Jiri Lundak and lundak.org is my personal website. I am currently working as Senior Software Engineer and Development Team Lead on projects for Swiss social security agencies. During the 20+ years of experience as a software developer and 10+ years as Java developer/architect, some ideas about projects have materialized, that I would like to persue in the future. I would like to condense the results of the past work and blended with new ideas into applications and frameworks, making them available on this site.

At the same time I encountered the complexities of project management. I was both on projects that were a great success and on projects that utterly failed. These experiences led me to believe, that most of the traditional software development approaches do not stand the proof of delivering the customer what he really wants. Project management often concentrates most of the time minimizing variation and change (in budget, schedule and scope) instead to spend their time on maximizing the ROI for the customer...A fundametal flaw I tend to fight against.

News
  • In November 2007 I was a week in London giving a talk on "Why Agile Projects Fail" with my friend Joseph Pelrine. The same talk at XPDay London 2007, five days later, was voted "Best Talk" of the conference.
  • On June, 4th 2007 I will be participating at the 1st German-Speaking Scrum Meeting in Munich, Germany.
  • I have begun writing a German book with the title "Agile Prozesse - Fallstricke erkennen und vermeiden" ("Agile Processes - Spotting Pitfalls And How to Avoid Them").
  • The complete set of my JavaMagazin articles about pitfalls in Agile development are now available for download here.
  • Another talk is scheduled on April 24th, 2007 in front of members of the Swiss Hermes community on "Scrum in the context of Hermes", in Bern, Switzerland.
  • I will be holding a public talk on April 23rd, 2007 at JAX on Scrum - Implementation Pitfalls, in Wiesbaden, Germany.
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