Gerard Beckerleg Solution Architect at Orchard ABOUT ME Scrum guru Gerard Beckerleg has been a Solution Architect at SSW in Sydney since 2011. He also lists Scrum and agile practices as a passion. Using these skills and frameworks, Gerard has brought to life a raft of successful projects, such as Toll, Sydney Airports, McDonalds, Event…
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In this short presentation, Gerard Beckerleg – SSW Solution Architect – shows us how we can use Agile to more effectively develop our mobile applications. This presentation was part of the Sydney Xamarin Hack Day line-up. Head over to the Xamarin Hack Day website to apply to attend (or even run your own hack day!) Let…
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After his successful session last year on Agile Scrum, our resident Scrum White Robe Gerard Beckerleg is at it again, except this time he’s taking on one of the most divisive topics in software development: Estimation. In this video recorded at the Sydney SSW offices, Gerard Beckerleg takes a dive into the depths of how…
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Happy New Year from the SSW TV team! We’re kickstarting the year by releasing a video special. It’s an in-depth interview featuring a real life product owner who talks to us about his perspectives using Agile on a large scale Enterprise project. SSW has just finished 28 weeks building the first release of a transport…
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Find out in less than 4 minutes the Top 5 Reasons to ditch Web Forms and move over to MVC already! #1: Testability– MVC provides true separation of concerns, and makes it easy to test the whole application from Unit Tests to Coded UI Tests. #2: Instant Pages – Get your admin pages up and…
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In this fast paced video, Gerard Beckerleg – Solution Architect at SSW – took an opportunity to interview 4 SharePoint experts at this years’ SharePoint Saturday event in Sydney. They offer some fantastic tips and describe the new features in SharePoint 2013 that excite them the most. They discuss, in order of appearance: Brian Farnhill…
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Gerard Beckerleg, Solution Architect at SSW, sat down with Marlon Marescia, Sales Manager at SSW to talk about the common pitfalls faced by teams working with Scrum and how you can overcome them. At SSW, Gerard is a seasoned ‘White Robe’ who is able to give great insight into the Scrum framework. This video is…
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Today, 84% of Agile teams are using Scrum. Gerard will guide you through what’s new in Team Foundation Server 2012, changes in the Visual Studio Scrum template, how to use the new Agile project management tools, and many other best practices. He will create and manage a product backlog, forecast and plan work for a…
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In this video, Gerard Beckerleg – Solution Architect at SSW – is asked by Adam Cogan what he thinks are the various dysfunctions developers have when they use Scrum. Gerard gives his 3 top pain points he sees for developers using the Scrum methodology: Teams taking on extra tasks mid-sprint (given by the Product Owner)…
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