A Scrum Master friend of mine missed Karaoke night on Saturday because she had to stay until midnight at work getting the release out of the door. Briefly, the story is like this: It was the release week and the new version of the application should have been on UAT environment on Thursday night. Even […]
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Note from the authors: This article was published in 2014, and therefore uses the historical term “Software Craftsmanship”. We have since discontinued the use of this term in favor of the more inclusive “Software Craft”. We have updated the article in Sep 2023 to reflect this change, however there may still be places where it’s
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In the previous blog post, we discussed why design is needed. We saw that using abstractions (functions, classes, modules etc) is a way to allow the code to change safely. We briefly touched on the idea that introducing abstractions has a down side: it can create software that’s difficult to understand. Therefore, the challenge is to
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Development teams everywhere are under increased pressure to deploy more often. In the age of Internet, we can instantly delight thousands of users through a small improvement. It’s rare nowadays even for business customers to be happy with release cycles of years; one year for a new release sounds too slow. A few months is
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I developed software products for about 5 years and collaborated with Product Owners (PO) during this time. I will share in the following my perspective as a developer about this role and about working together with POs. I was surprised when I first read about the definition of a product owner, after working for a
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This is one of the Kudo cards we, the organisers of I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2013 received at the end of the last day. Why is it so special? For me it is special because last year I T.A.K.E. Unconference was the first time when I participated in an Open Space. Any unconference needs to plan
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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been interested in why things are the way that they are. Over time, that intense curiosity has driven me to learn as much as I can about object orientation and software development in general. I like to find out what works, and what doesn’t and tell people
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Do you have a great idea but don’t know how to convince your colleagues? Learn a few techniques on how to initiate change that is supported by everybody. We live in a world where the only constant is change. If we go back only five years ago, there was no iPad, nobody heard of Big
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Last September I was invited by the organizers of WebExpo Prague to be part of their excellent conference. For my presentation I decided to tackle the topic of Lean Startup practices as applied to building and growing software products. Web applications are especially suited for this approach for two reasons: data access and simple deployments. Because we
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Three interesting gatherings took place this year, involving a lot of energy, professionals people and content. 1. ALE2013 The 3rd edition of the non-profit ALE Unconference gathered the best European Agile and Lean experts, in Bucharest, for three full days of knowledge sharing. We ended the most awesome unconference with free spirit, new friends, great new ideas and many,
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