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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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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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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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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“As aspiring Software Crafters we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft.” The Manifesto for Software Craft I am very glad to be one of the 70 developers and testers who attended the SoCraTes UK unconference. We were all hoping to work together towards the
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For a couple of years I had an idea: let us organize an event focused for programmers and testers. For them, technical guys and girls that do a lot of work and are the base of any IT business. So, last year during our team retreat (you can see a picture here with us, during
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It was 2009 when Maria decided to organize the first ever agile conference in Romania, Open Agile Romania. To facilitate the marketing, it was planned as a track of an open source event, eLiberatica, better known at that time. Finding interesting speakers willing to come to Romania, at that time was much harder than expected.
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Our team is very proud to launch an innovative conference, unique in Central and Eastern Europe: I T.A.K.E. It will take place in Bucharest, on 30-31 May 2013. I T.A.K.E. is a technical conference targeted at everyone involved in software development. It is different because: Many passionate developers, testers, architects and managers coming from
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During our work as programmers we often have the feeling of wanting to get the things done. We as programmers feel that cutting corners and taking big steps is a safe way. Until the bugs kick in! And when the changes in the already written software are so painful! This is why for us FAST
