A few days ago I published a blog post with resources for ScrumMasters. I was saying how, since it’s a relatively new role, it requires new skills to get it right, so people often ask me for learning resources. Well, the same goes for the Product Owner role. In the past, things were clear: we had […]
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Last night, in Bucharest, entrepreneurs, managers and people interested in focusing ideas towards realisation met at TechHub. It was a special event where they found out: What practical tools to use in their teams Which solutions help and support them in their day-to-day challenges Maria Diaconu welcomed the audience with a few words about innovation, entrepreneurship and
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Quite often after a Scrum workshop, the newly appointed ScrumMaster will approach me and confess that this role is much harder than they had anticipated. I really sympathize with that problem. The role is deceivingly simple at first glance, but really challenging to do in real life. So I’ve gathered a list of resources that should
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Alexandru Bolboaca and Adrian Bolboaca’s article about Architecture, Extreme Programming and Security testing was published in the Agile Record, a free-to-download magazine published quarterly in Germany. You can read a fragment of the article here. Briefly on Architecture, Extreme Programming and Security testing Agile Agile has become more and more well known into the software development world today. And
Last time we talked about the problems John faces when encountering code that doesn’t follow the Single Responsibility Principle. This time we’ll discuss about his colleague, Jane. Jane is another programmer from the team, specialized in accounting. She receives requests from the accounting department, such as: Until now, all our services had the VAT of 18%
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A few weeks ago, Flavius Stef and Alexandru Bolboaca organised a special meetup for the AgileWorks community in Bucharest. The topic of the meetup was Kanban and it had two parts. First, Flavius Stef and Alexandru Bolboaca presented what Kanban is and how to adopt it. In the second part of the meeting, free discussions organised as Open Space allowed attendees to learn more practical
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Let me tell you the story of a developer. His name is John and he’s working in a medium-size company, developing with 10 colleagues the internal tools for users from: accounting, customer relations, human resources, marketing, management reports and operations. Since John is mainly specialized in HR, he gets requests such as: We’re introducing our
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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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