Is technical leadership important? Even in a modern, agile / lean / software craf company? My experience says it is not only important but the key to the improved performance of developers. Whether we’re talking about a team technical lead, a software architect, a CTO, or an informal leader, I often see the need to understand their […]
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As practitioners and trainers using Kanban, we insist on a few changes in perspective that it requires in order to be effective. One of them is capacity planning. Kanban, like Scrum, assumes that the capacity of the team 1 is fixed in the short term. This leads to the question: how can we use the current
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One of the first techniques I learned as a beginner Product Owner was user story mapping. I immediately found it was easy to understand and apply. What took a while longer was appreciating its true power – identifying all the situations where it can be applied. In the eventriX team, we use it to keep
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The post was first published in Today Software Magazine, no. 55 This article aims to answer a set of core questions about software architecture, providing answers that come from modern software architecture thinking. Its inspiration came from: conversations with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Simon Brown architecting the eventrix.co product, running “Architectural Katas” countless conversations with architects
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In 2009, Bucharest was on the pair programming tour of the first software journeyman: Corey Haines. We want to support and continue this tradition. We’re opening up our office for anyone who has a connection with software development and wants to travel and learn more. We’ve done this informally in the past, with people we
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While developing the first MozaicLabs product, eventrix.co, we wanted to use our full experience in agile, lean and software craft. Here’s a list of things we’ve adopted: Then, we started innovating by introducing design elements to preserve consistency of software design. We realized at some point that the team needed more experience with domain modeling and created a
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Over the past 6 months, I’ve been working with a customer who develops hardware appliances. They were facing a challenge with complaints from users about one of their products, which appeared a few months in. Needless to say, the cause of such bugs requires long and thorough investigation. Context The hardware appliance runs a real-time OS, which
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This is the last blog post in the series about technical strategy in practice. The first post, I’ve detailed what is technical strategy and why is important. In the second one, I’ve described how a technical strategy should look for a specific product. In this article, I am going to share more about who creates
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Let’s continue the series about technical strategy. In the first blog post, I’ve detailed what technical strategy is and why it is important. In this article, you will find more about what the technical strategy should contain for a particular product. A few things need to be well defined, clearly communicated and constantly repeated. Before
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In my first years of working as a developer, I dreaded a few words like “marketing”, “exciting”, and “strategy”. And for good reasons: most times they were void of meaning. A few years later, as a technical lead, and later as a technical coach, I learned that the lack of meaning in the words “technical
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