Improvement ideas for future actions come from lessons learnt. Perfection game is one of the techniques used to express our opinions. It is a non-violent and action-focused technique, that can be used to get feedback. It can also be used as a retrospective technique or to help teams to self organize. Here’s how it goes: Each interested person […]
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Our colleague Flavius Stef talked at the business track of the Agile on the Beach conference (UK) about using the principles of Lean Startup into product development to reduce waste. The conference took place on the Cornish coast, and had over 300 attendees who enjoyed the sessions together with more than 40 speakers. The key
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When was the last time you spent a full day just to practice new ways of coding? Back in 2008 four guys met during a conference and tried to encourage more people to engage in deliberate practice. This is how the Coderetreat concept was born. Briefly, a Coderetreat consists of 5-7 programming sessions of 45 minutes. The main characteristic of these sessions is
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The first version of this article was published in Today Software Magazine, no 24. Below it is an updated version. The authors: Adrian Bolboacă and Alexandru Bolboacă The Beginnings How fast could you create a software product starting from an idea? This is the purpose of this article. We will explain our concept, from a technical
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Blog post by Andreas Leidig, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission. Thanks Andreas for your active participation during the unconference.
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After the first intensive day of I T.A.K.E. Unconference the participants started the second one sharing briefly to each other their impressions and takeaways. Mozaic Works teddy bears supported them, being their pair right from the intro. All speakers presented briefly the next talks and workshops. Already used to five parallel tracks, the participants joined their preferred sessions. These were: True Software
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I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2014 kicked off with the open Intro. The speakers briefly introduced their sessions in front of almost 200 participants. All the participants attended Michael Feathers‘ keynote who talked about the influence of organization on code structure and evolution. His experience shows that the composition of teams and the structure of the organization around them often has
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As supporters and contributors to software craft community we love to make visible the values and thoughts of experienced practitioners over the world. Here is what Sandro Mancuso shared with us just few days before I TAKE Unconference 2014, where he is present for the second time. Where did you get the idea for London Software Craft Community
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This article was initially published in Today Software Magazine, no 23. The authors are: Adrian Bolboacă and Alexandru Bolboacă. The natural career of a software developer is: junior programmer, senior programmer, technical lead / team leader, optionally architect and then it turns into management. There’s something paradoxical about this path: the career that started with
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Last night, in Bucharest, technical leaders, software architects, managers and people interested in technical leadership practices met at TechHub. It was a special event where they found out: technical leadership practices a bit about how to learn them a bit about how to apply them Alexandru Bolboaca welcomed the audience with a few words about the main challenges
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