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Information Radiators: Extreme feedback with Bamboo

This little project was inspired by the Ultimate Wallboard contest, our effort to find your best status boards, information radiators and wallboards. If you have a wallboard, simple or sophisticated, we want to know about it! Check out the contest site to enter for a chance to win prizes. Hacking Bamboo with Arduino We wanted to integrate an Arduino board with Bamboo such that it would light up an orb in different colors, like turning red when the build fails. Putting my MSc degree in electronics

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Agile With A Remote Product Owner

We Are From Mars All agile methodologies stress the need of co-locating development with the customer's representative - the Product Owner - or at least, having them in close proximity - both in time and in space. Our team seems to be the exact opposite of what "the agile way" requires - we are located on the other side of the planet (Gdansk, Poland) from the company headquarters (Sydney, Australia). This means we could just as well be located on Mars. Actually, one could argue that outside of the

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Don’t panic, we are from Poland

Hi, I'm Janusz Gorycki, Manager for Atlassian's newest office. We just started working for Atlassian on January 7th. We are from Gdansk, Poland and we are the staff of Atlassian's European office, located here. There are currently eight of us - seven software developers and their manager--me. We joined Atlassian as a team, having moved from a giant, multinational corporation, where we had been working in the IT department. We're all experienced developers - for example I started my professional

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