Feedback is one of the most powerful tools a manager, developer or HR professional can use to reduce mistakes and increase performance. It is a key practice in Agile and Lean and, although it sounds easy it is quite hard. Read this post for a more detailed description of good practices for feedback inside a development team. Consider […]
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Our trainer and coach, Adrian Bolboaca talks about pairing, more than pair programming. This event took place on the 21th of November 2013. Thank you Java User Group Bucharest for having us around. The Bucharest JUG organizer, Ioan Eugen Stan published the video of this talk on JUG video channel. Here is the talk: Do you want to learn more about
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This takes a second post of a series about the Open Space format. In the first part, we talked about how the Open Space format was born, when it’s appropriate as a format and the rules that guide it: the law of two feet and the 5 principles. In this post we’ll cover the Market Place, the facilitator and the participants discussions. We talk
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User Stories are the bridge between the customer and the development team. They are short, clear, written sentences which tell everyone what the system needs to do for the user. For the Agile practitioners, the user stories are known as one of the primary development artifacts for Scrum project teams. Those artifacts resume clearly the requirements
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(Guest blog post by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, originally appeared on her blog. Republished with permission.) What a busy, intense week Agile 2013 was! It was a great opportunity to connect with old friends and meet folks who share common interests and energy. I also had a lot of fun spreading the word/exchanging ideas about two things I’m
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Harrison Owen was an ambitious person. In 1983, he tried to organize the best conference ever. After taking care of all details, making sure everything works perfectly and gathering the right speakers and the right people, the conference finally took place. The feedback from the attendees was: the conference was great, but the best thing
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(Guest blog post by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, originally appeared on her blog. Republished with permission.) Agile designers embrace change. But that doesn’t mean change is always easy. Some things are harder to change than others. So it is good to know how to explain this to impatient product stakeholders, program managers, or product owners when they ask
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(Guest blog post by Markus Gärtner, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission.) Four months have nearly past since I started my new job at it-agile GmbH. Lots of things have happened since then. I got to know many teams, I learned lots about design, architecture, test-driven development, and also about testing. This blog entry is about
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A supermarket is a large form of the traditional grocery store, a self-service shop offering a wide variety of food and household products, organized into aisles. The good thing about it is that I find a large variety of products. Supermarkets don’t look like an interesting organization; I was surprised to find out that they were the basis of one of the prevalent
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(Guest blog post by Jurgen Appelo, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission.) No matter how big the CEO’s desk is, an organization is not a hierarchy. It is a social network. People interact with each other across all levels. And even though delivering a software product is quite different from handing over the butter at the
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