Category: example

Video tutorial: Advanced Excel template for Product and Sprint Backlog management

October 17, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

Excel is one of the most popular tools for managing the backlogs of the Scrum process. There is a number of templates available and here is a screencast on using one of the advanced ones. This template was created by Petri Heiramo from Digia and includes facilities for managing both product and sprint backlogs. You can download this template on the page with the collection of Scrum templates and examples.

You might also like to have a look at the video tutorials on the simple product backlog template and simple sprint backlog template.

Video tutorial: Managing your Sprint Backlog with the help of a simple Excel sheet

June 9, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

In this 6 min-long tutorial I demonstrate how you can manage your Sprint Backlog in a very simple Excel sheet based on a popular free template. Watch this screencast if you want to get started with Scrum.

Video tutorial: Managing your Scrum Product Backlog with the help of a simple Excel sheet

April 25, 2008 by Artem Marchenko

In this tutorial I demonstrate how you can manage your Scrum Product Backlog in a very simple Excel sheet based on a popular free template. Watch this screencast if you want to get started with Scrum. You will see how to get started, how to detail, inject and remove requirements, how to build burndown and velocity charts.

You can download the somewhat lower quality version of the tutorial from Google Video.

See also

• Video tutorial: Managing your Sprint Backlog with the help of a simple Excel sheet
• Video tutorial: Advanced Excel template for Product and Sprint Backlog management

Simple Sprint Backlog Example

October 15, 2007 by Artem Marchenko

Update: Link to XLS fixed. Kudos to Jukka Laurila

Simple Product Backlog Example

October 9, 2007 by Artem Marchenko

CppUTest framework. Symbian extension and example

October 2, 2007 by Artem Marchenko

Update: The users of some a bit exotic SDKs reported that they cannot build the example. The reason was the project file SampleTest.mmp. I updated it making the project file a bit redundant. Now example should be compilable on any S60 SDK.

CppUTest is a unit testing framework based on CppUnitLite and designed for the embedded systems usage. Lately it has been ported to Symbian OS used in Nokia S60 smartphones. The framework is xUnit compatible, extremely simple and easy to use. It can print the test results both to console and to a junit-like xml file (later I am going to investigate how well it can be parsed by standard junit output parsers).

Symbian extension. Usage example

Unfortunately, CppUTest package at the moment does not include a full-blown Symbian specific example and lacks support for such Symbian primitives as descriptors (Symbian strings) and leaves (Symbian exceptions).

The file attached to this post contains both. It is a simple and heavily commented example of using CppUTest in Symbian, that includes cpputestsymbianextension.h adding support for descriptors and leaves.

Scrum backlog templates and examples

November 6, 2006 by Artem Marchenko

Bas Vodde collected and published examples and templates of the Scrum product and Sprint backlogs. Most of them are in MS Excel format. Some (XLS) include a lot of comments, some (XLS) are very colourful. Check them out, Excel can really cover most of the needs of the archived backlog tracking.

Cached templates
Here are the cached copies of templates that I reviewed on this website.

• Petri Heiramo's advanced product and sprint backlog template -
  • Video tutorial on using it

See Also

• Simple Product Backlog Example
  • Video tutorial on using it
• Simple Sprint Backlog Example
  • Video tutorial on using it

Series 60 examples

November 22, 2005 by Artem Marchenko

Today I've spent several hours trying to locate a simple example for the Nokia's Series 60 3rd edition. And miserably failed.

At the moment I am developing my first 3rd edition application. It is also the first app, where I am going to use vector icons in the svg format (introduced in Series 60 2nd edition Feature Pack 3). Somehow in all my previous projects I did the non-UI components only and never bothered about the application wrap-up.

Today in the morning I found that even though I have access to a lot of 3rd edition applications, I don't have a single simple example. As you might guess the attempts to "intelligently copy" the existing code failed.