Well, my white paper was accepted by the LETSI community and they seem to have liked it very much! After a week of deliberations in a working group meeting in Pensacola, FL, the LETSI group has decided that my recomendation for SCORM Seqeucing and Navigation is to be used as the vision for guiding the future versions of the specification.

I have recently discovered a really cool feature of the .Net framework 3.5 called Windows Workflow Foundation. I know that I am a little slow and that it has been around for a couple of years but this is the first time I have tried using it. So, if you are not really familiar with WF the reason you would want to use it is if you need to automate business processes.

I have been planning for the start of a new project and one of the key decisions to make is how to manage and format the product backlog. I have come up with a few options that all sound like they could work. So, here's the list:

So, my white paper is at a draft stage. I essentially have all the data I need to complete it but it still looks ugly. I need to clean up the graphics and make them attractive and put the paper in the correct layout. The IEEE uses a two-column format for white papers, so I will need to lay out my paper in the same format.

I recently blogged about my trip to Tampa for a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training course. I just wanted to say that it was pretty cool. The guy running it, Mike Vizdos, was a pretty good facilitator and we had a great group there. There where some developers from Chase bank, the Home Shopping Network, the Orange County School Board, and me.

Thanks Mike. The class was worth the money.

I have recently been very excited about Scrum and agile software development in general. Today, I was thinking about the team roles in Scrum. Scrum has only three roles - Product Owner, Scrummaster, and Team.

I just had a new idea. Or, at least it's new to me. The idea is a framework for a Rich Internet Application (RIA) that allows a Flex-based RIA to communicate with a server-based database using a RESTful JSON communication channel.

I like to keep an open ear for new technologies coming out, especially in the software development arena. One new item that a lot of people are raving about is Ruby on Rails (RoR). So, I decided to check it out.

I found out that it's made by a bunch of Mac users. As most computer professionals know, Mac users all fall into one of two categories. The first (and larger) category is grandparents that can't type much less use a computer. This is the group that believes having more than one button on your mouse is far to confusing.

I will be traveling to Tampa, FL this week (Thursday and Friday) to attend a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) training session hosted by Michael Vizdos. I have read a couple of his books and his web site seems funny. Hopefully I will learn something about Agile in general and Scrum in particular.

The ADL community has turned over the development of SCORM 2.0 to the LETSI organization. LETSI has just put out a call for white papers that will be used to shape the next version of the SCORM specification. You can find some more info on the status of SCORM 2.0 at the LESTI web site.