1	Reaktor is Europe's Best Place to Work I was offline all day today, speaking at a seminar and discussing with people. Throughout the day my phone kept beeping and I could see around lunch time that I had several emails in my inbox about this. Turns out that Reaktor getting awarded as the E...	May 28, 2008
2	Planning Poker 101 The Disclaimer Ever heard of planning poker? If you haven't, continue reading. If you know what planning poker is and don't feel like reading yet another intro, jump over to The Beef. No, wait. I think you should read the whole thing. If for no ot...	Apr 22, 2008
3	On Story Points I've mentioned this before but most of my work these days revolves around helping organizations and software development teams adopt agile methods or otherwise restructure their operations. Specifically, a lot of our clients (like most teams at Reakto...	Apr 17, 2008
4	Great Place to Work If you haven't heard the news yet, Reaktor just won the Great Place to Work competition, going straight to the #1 position in the general category. I'm proud to be part of this.	Jan 31, 2008
5	Thinking about a great programmer Pete Goodliffe, the author of Code Craft, is promoting his book this week at the JavaRanch. During the promotion, he's answering all kinds of questions about his book and software development in general in the process forum. In one thread, Pete is d...	Feb 21, 2007
6	Behavior-Driven Galore Since you're reading my blog, you're probably also reading other blogs where the blogger talks about topics similar or related to what I talk about. With this in mind, chances are that you've at least heard of BDD or Behavior-Driven Development. You...	Feb 3, 2007
7	Poker and Resistance in Hamburg in November So it turns out that we'll be running the Coding Tournament again with Markus in the German XP Day conference in November. It seems weird forms of poker are really picking up these days ;) I'll also be running a workshop titled "Resistance As A Reso...	Aug 15, 2006
8	Eclipse plugin for OpenCMS A colleague of mine, Sami Honkonen, has been developing an Eclipse plugin to aid the development of OpenCMS based websites. His work has just been unleashed to the public through the Laughing Panda.	Aug 2, 2006
9	The little joys of having a summer What a better way to spice up a meeting than to have it outside :) PS. A whiteboard would be a much better option than the flip-chart we had. You can't see it from the picture above but we had some trouble with pages turning on their own...	Jul 7, 2006
10	Agile is indeed crossing the chasm It came up again several times in the XP2006 conference that people are seeing Agile crossing the chasm. And I agree. Kind of. Agile is gaining mass and it certainly looks to me like Agile is indeed crossing the chasm if it hasn't already. Actually...	Jun 26, 2006
11	Super-brief recap of the XP2006 conference Here's my short (kind of) recap of the XP2006 conference that was held in Oulu, Finland this year. Before going any further, I'd like to thank the organizers and volunteers for a well-organized conference. The Reaktor team thanks you! We arrived at...	Jun 26, 2006
12	Just one of the things I love about Reaktor I've said this before but perhaps the most important thing about working at Reaktor is the people you get to work with. As an example of the kind of devotion to the profession, here's a photo I just snapped of a book that a coworker had ordered. ...	Jun 9, 2006
13	Yes, I'm still alive Soooo... I've been laying low for a while. Partly due to myself having caught a bug. The kind of old school type bug. The keeps you in bed without energy to focus on anything productive for several days kind of bug. Luckily I got over it just in time ...	Apr 19, 2006
14	VTT's research gets press for agile methods in Finland Lask week, I saw an article in Tietoviikko on agile methods, including among other positive notions the following quote (my translation) in the context of VTT's research and the adoption of their Mobile-D methodology (an agile method created at the VT...	Apr 2, 2006
15	Who's your pimp? Gmail displays random quotes on the top of my inbox and just now my attention was drawn to the quote (which doesn't happen often--usually I barely notice that there is a quote). The quote was by George Bernard Shaw, a well-known 19th century vegetaria...	Feb 19, 2006
16	Next Helsinki Dojo on Wednesday The next coding dojo in Helsinki is on Wednesday the 8th and is again hosted by Reaktor. I can't make it this time myself because I'm not in town. Even more reason for you to sign up!	Feb 5, 2006
17	We made the front page today <img src="./images/tietov...	Feb 3, 2006