Software design is all the rage now. It looks like every year a few more design ideas appear. First there were the GoF design patterns. Now, MVC is the way to do web applications, while ideas like: domain driven design, ports and adapters, microservices see increase interest and adoption. I learned software design by doing, […]
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Every week, me and Claudia discover 2-3 potential bugs in the product we are developing during our code review sessions. This happens despite a very structured way of work and despite applying ATDD and Test First / TDD. Yet developers and technical leads complain to me in the community or during coaching sessions and workshops
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Picture taken in the same at Global Day of Coderetreat 2014, in Bucharest This year, Peter Kofler invited me to facilitate Global Day of Coderetreat 2014 in Vienna. The event was hosted by Frequentis and sponsored by Frequentis and I TAKE Unconference. The event was setup to be a challenge for any facilitator. About half
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User story slicing is a key agile practice, yet many teams my colleagues and I work with struggle with it. The stories they create often are too complex, unclear or without a clear value attached to them. There are many ways to deal with this situation: workshop, coaching, learn by trying or reading various materials
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As we were sharing in an article in Today Software Magazine (Adrian Bolboaca & Alexandru Bolboaca) our views about software craft, we came to the fact that Test Driven Development is one of the core practices for software crafters. Besides the increasing number of articles, blogs, short movies or books on this subject, Test Driven Development (TDD)
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This article was published first in Today Software Magazine, no 28. Below it’s the full version. The author: Alexandru Bolboacă Why Agile? “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Confucius ** Unpredictability I have seen in my 15 years career as a developer, technical lead, project manager, freelancer, trainer, agile/lean/technical coach and again developer many
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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The Sprint has finished and the team has several incomplete stories. Is it ok to present partial work during the Sprint Review?
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Do we need a full time Scrum Master or is it a part time role?
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Are you facilitating meetings where only half the team gets to speak? Here are a few simple tips to get the entire team involved.
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