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The Tupalo.com Kanban Story – ON TOUR (3)…LKSE 2012 – Buenas días Madrid!

By | May 15, 2012 | Development, Events, Industry, Kanban, Tupalo | No comments

I guess it’s time again for a new update on our journey through Kanbanland. Last week I had the honor to present “The Tupalo.com Kanban Story” at the Lean Kanban Southern Europe 2012 conference in Madrid.

The LKSE12 conference was held for the first time and was packed with interesting talks around Kanban, Lean, Product Development and Risk Management. Since the emphasis of the conference was laid on experience reports I decided to sum up our challenges and discoveries in a little case study. During my talk I gave an insight into the implementation and evolution of our Kanban system over the last 1 ½ years.

 Excerpt of the feedback/comments via Twitter…

@agilemanager: And now @shuabee telling the wonderful @tupalo #kanban story :-) #lkse12
@pawelbrodzinski: Introduction of kanban helped to realize that the process in fact is different than the team thought. @shuabee #lkse12 Same experience here.
@pawelbrodzinski: And over time the kanban board became way more complex. @shuabee #lkse12 Again, I share that experience.
@agilemanager: .@tupalo story now showing how #LeanStartup validation ideas are now being incorporated w/ #kanban – @shuabee #lkse12
@asplake: Great example from @shuabee of visualising feedback loops that involve external parties #lkse12
@JasperSonnevelt: And they have bug-fixing-fridays! RT @pawelbrodzinski @shuabee is putting bugs on the board. This way you show how doomed you are ;) #lkse12
@JasperSonnevelt: Wip limits are encouraging pair programming at tupalo #lkse12 #kanban @shuabee
@arneroock: Very interesting #kanban case study from Tupalo by @shuabee #lkse12

 

All in all I can say – I heard some great talks, met with great people and had a great time!

For those of you who want to hear more about “The Tupalo.com Kanban Story” I will mention some of our findings and experiences in more detail in the next blog posts.

You can make IT!

By | May 4, 2012 | Development, Industry, Team, Tupalo | No comments
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Vor einiger Zeit war ein Kamerateam bei uns zu Besuch, um unseren Clemens (und ein bisschen vom Büro- und Developmentalltag – inklusive Laika!) für eine ganz spezielle IT-Kampagne bildlich einzufangen:

Bei der Initiative You can make IT! geht es darum, junge Menschen, die vor der Wahl des passenden Studiums stehen, auf das Fach der Informatik aufmerksam zu machen und gleichzeitig auch das Image des Studiums zu verbessern.

An dem Projekt beteiligt sind alle österreichischen Universitäten, die Informatik anbieten, und neben Infos zum Studium stellen sich auf der Webseite der You can make IT!-Kampagne eben auch Studierende oder in der IT Arbeitende vor – wie eben Clemens, die “technische Hälfte” des Tupalo-Gründerduos. :)

Weitere Interviews gibt’s da zu finden, das Video featuring Clemens könnt Ihr gleich hier ansehen:

Tupalo.com kleurt oranje tijdens Koninginnedag!

By | April 27, 2012 | Amsterdam, Community, Rotterdam, Tupalo | No comments
Tupalo.com in oranje

Maandag is het Koninginnedag en traditiegetrouw dossen wij Nederlanders ons uit in ‘t oranje. Maar ook op het Tupalo hoofdkantoor is het oranje troef. We hebben een strikte dresscode, de 30ste. Ook online, daar alle Nederlandse pagina’s het typische Tupalo-blauw verruilen voor een zonniger tintje. En we hebben nog een kleine verrassing in petto. Inloggen is meemaken! ;)

Tupalo.com in oranje

Wow! We’re going to… Krakow!

By | April 17, 2012 | Team, Tupalo | No comments
railsberry

Part of the Tupalo.com team will be in Krakow this week for the Railsberry conference. Railsberry is the European Rails Conference organized by Applicake. It’s ‘a treat for online friends who share the passion for dynamic languages such as Ruby and Javascript‘.

railsberry

Sebastian and Consti will spent their days attending the conference at the Manggha Center of Japanese Art and Technology, and do some coaching ‘on the side’ for Railsgirls. Michi, Clemens and ‘new guy’ Johannes will make their way over there tomorrow.

Don’t want to miss a thing? Follow the conference semi-live via the Railsberry twitter account!

Close-up: Alle Tupalo-Badges im Detail

By | April 4, 2012 | Community, Tupalo | No comments
Tupalo badges

Die ersten Tupalo-Badges sind schnell und leicht verdient, neuen UserInnen ist aber oft nicht klar, woher die vielen anderen Auszeichnungen kommen, die auf den Profilseiten anderer NutzerInnen zu sehen sind.

Wir haben nun beschlossen, das Geheimnis um unsere Badges zu lüften!

Read more…

One-Hit-Wonder
Schon die erste Bewertung verdient ein Zeichen der Anerkennung – hoffentlich bleibt es aber nicht bei einem One-Hit-Wonder!
Neueinsteiger
Das Neueinsteiger-Level erreicht man durch das Schreiben von 5 Bewertungen.
Adabei
Schon der allererste Checkin mit der Tupalo-App für Android oder iPhone wird mit einer Badge gewürdigt, juhu!
Wanderlust
Die Wanderlust-Badge gibt es nach dem 10. Checkin per Tupalo-App.
Biograph
Die Biographen-Badge ist leicht verdient – einfach nur das eigene Profil vollständig ausfüllen und schon hat man die Badge in der Tasche.

The Tupalo.com Kanban Story – ON TOUR (2)…Leadership Workshop Barcelona!

By | March 28, 2012 | Development, Kanban, Tupalo | No comments

At Tupalo.com we always like to travel…also on business. This time, the father of Kanban David J. Anderson invited me to present the Tupalo.com Kanban Story at his Leadership/Coaching Workshop in the lovely city of Barcelona.

The 3-day workshop was filled with interesting insights and useful methods every Kanban practitioner should know about. That did not only mean listening to helpful theory and our case studies but also rolling the dice at the GetKanban board game.

The workshop was a great experience and I am glad that we received lots of positive feedback on our Kanban implementation. The next stops on our journey through Kanbanland are already planned and I am pretty excited to follow up on this. :)

We’re not working 8 hours overtime just yet…

By | March 26, 2012 | Announcements, Community, Tupalo, Vienna | No comments

We decided to postpone 8-i by (by probably no more than) a month, due to circumstances. Not everyone that we’d like to witness and participate in what will be an awesome and charitable event, is able to attend. We’ll keep you posted on the new date here, on the blog, on Twitter and on Facebook! We’ll be back!

We will however follow the worldwide event on friday the 30th!

Vind je vriendjes op Tupalo!

By | March 22, 2012 | Community, Tupalo | No comments

Omdat we allemaal weten dat het leuker is om de stad met vrienden te ontginnen, helpen we je graag met het vinden van je gal pals / best buds / vrindjes op Tupalo.

vind je vrienden op tupalo.com

Hoe? Wel, via Facebook en / of Twitter. Of via onze zoekfunctie natuurlijk. Verzamel ze allemaal!

Now go out and review! Het is immers lente. En lekker weer. En ijsjes die opgegeten moeten worden.

Tips & tricks: hacking the leaderboard

By | March 21, 2012 | Community, Tupalo | No comments

If you’re anything like me, you like a little competition. You probably keep a close eye on the leaderboard of your city. And you’re prepared to do anything (ANYTHING) to claim that first place, be it in the daily, weekly, monthly or yearly stats. It’s for you that I wrote this post on how to earn as many points in as little time as possible, because after all, we’re busy people. And we have a job too. Or some of us do.

Anyway…

leaderboard tupalo.com

For a normal review, you’ll get 24 points. For a super review however (only 100 words!), you’ll get 36! On the other hand: when your review is spammed, you are hit by a whooping -40 pts penalty. So if you planned to spam your way to the top of the leaderboard, you’re in for a nasty surprise. ;)

Adding a spot is worth 20 points and updating an existing one – with opening hours or their new website for instance – 10. Giving feedback on a review is worth 6 points. Adding some kind of media (a picture or a video) 4 pionts, and a check-in 2.

Now whenever you participate in one of our challenges or give-aways, you might get extra points when you write a (super) review for one of the participating spots. A nice extra, I’d say, next to the chance of winning that challenge!

Now go forth and earn some points!

Hoe alle Tupalo badges te scoren (om er vervolgens vreselijk over op te scheppen):

By | March 20, 2012 | Community, Tupalo | No comments

“Hoe verdien ik zo snel mogelijk alle badges?” Veruit de meeste gesprekken met onze leden beginnen met deze vraag. Vandaar deze how-to, om voor eens en altijd antwoord te geven op deze prangende kwestie. Now go forth and hunt some badges!

Tupalo badges

Daar gaan we dan:

Me-too
Download onze Android of iPhone app en check in op ten minste één locatie.

Wanderlust
Je tiende check-in wordt beloond met deze badge.

Pathfinder
Nog een paar check-ins (25 in totaal) en je verdient de Pathfinder badge. Read more…

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