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Mar 16 2014

Meet software professionals from all over Europe

By Iuliana Minza / 1 minute of reading / Architecture, Blog, Public events, Software Craft, Software Engineering

We invite you to the second edition of the exciting IT event for programmers, testers, technical leaders and managers I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2014. We created it to offer you the opportunity to meet software professionals from all over Europe. Our first confirmed keynote speaker is Michael Feathers, the author of ”Working Effectively with Legacy Code” (Prentice Hall, 2004) and a world renown consultant with over 15 years […]

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Mar 16 2014

Coding with a Stranger

By Alex Bolboaca / 3 minutes of reading / Blog, Public events, Software Engineering

Romanians have a saying: “Skills are not learned, they are stolen”. We believe this is true about programming skills as well, so we strive to create opportunities for programmers to steal skills from one another. “Coding with a Stranger” is such an opportunity. A Personal Story I will make a confession: I’m an introvert programmer.

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Mar 16 2014

5 Tricks to Amplify Learning

By Iuliana Minza / 7 minutes of reading / Agile, Blog

One of the core lean principles, also applied in agile context, is “amplify learning”. The reason is that software development is a complex endeavor. We deal every day with new things, either changes in the market, in the user behavior or in the technologies we use. Sometimes, we feel that it’s impossible to keep up.

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Mar 16 2014

Give feedback for performance

By Iuliana Minza / 4 minutes of reading / Blog, Management

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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Mar 16 2014

Do Agile Teams Have Performance Reviews?

By Flavius Stef / 6 minutes of reading / Agile, Blog, Management

How does the practice of performance reviews match an agile environment? Sooner or later, most teams adopting agile come to an unanticipated discovery: the impact of this way of working goes far beyond adjusting to iterative development or learning some technical practices. It also profoundly impacts the way companies do sales, marketing or HR. In

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Mar 16 2014

Adrian Bolboaca – Sherlock Holmes And Pairing

By Iuliana Minza / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Public events, Software Engineering

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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Mar 16 2014

What is behind the “Open Space” concept – part 2

By Iuliana Minza / 3 minutes of reading / Agile, Blog, Public events

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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Nov 20 2013

Ask better questions in your daily meeting

By Flavius Stef / 4 minutes of reading / Blog, Scrum

You might be wasting your time in ineffective daily meetings because you are asking the wrong questions. Could other questions give us a richer understanding of the current Sprint? The boring Daily Scrum I think the Daily Stand-up is one of the most misunderstood agile practices. As a coach, I get to see many teams

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Nov 20 2013

Sharing and Learning in the European Communities: SoCraMOB

By Adrian Bolboaca / 5 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Craft

Last week I was invited by Marco to be part of the awesome series of Open Space events organized by the Software Craft (Softwerkskammer) community from Münster, Osnabruck and Bielefeld. These Open Space events are organized by the local Software Craft community that consists of software professionals from the three cities. A couple of years

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Nov 20 2013

Scrum Master Typologies

By Alex Bolboaca / 5 minutes of reading / Blog, Scrum

The Scrum Master role is difficult to understand and execute well. It’s not a manager, it’s not a technical role, it’s not a boss. It’s a leader, facilitator and coach. Not all Scrum Masters are at this level; what about you? The Scrum Master is a very important role in Scrum. Like any important role,

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