A revaluation of our practices and patterns happens every few years, and it seems to happen again today. The usual result is that a reaction to the existing practices results into other practices who have more or different sets of problems. One of the goals of this channel is to help avoid the loss of […]
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A few weeks ago, James Shore has published a novel idea in the area of automated testing. The “Nullable” testing patterns offer a way to incrementally write tests on legacy code and to avoid mocks and design changes for testability, by allowing any class, to implement in addition to the production code a “nullable” implementation
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During an AMA session with a client, a very good question came up: “How do I know I have a high performing team?” In the context of Scrum being a bootstrapping process for high performing teams, it’s interesting to discuss what they are and how to get there. To do so, we discuss a number
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When you start developing based on your architecture, you are entering a socio-technical system, a system that will evolve in various directions depending on outside and internal factors. This evolution is difficult to manage, and a potential solution is to use the concept of architectural fitness functions. In this video, we look at what they
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We discuss real options, a technique coined by Chris Matts, in the context of agile software development, looking to understand it better. Few links: real options definition in finance from Investopedia: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/realoption.asp article by Chris Matts and Olav Maassen: https://www.infoq.com/articles/real-options-enhance-agility/ Adi Bolboaca is a VP, trainer and coach at Mozaic Works. Alex Bolboaca is a
Software development organizations working in silos are often facing the situation of bottlenecks appearing on the delivery chain. The typical management reaction is to optimize locally, thus putting more pressure on the bottleneck while failing to improve the whole chain. Theory of Constraints is a way for managers to remove bottlenecks while improving the whole
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We recorded this video on April 1st, and we decided to do something fun. So we react to the series of tweets by NotMyAgile
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Constraints are desirable for agile teams, when they enable the teams to develop in the direction that helps the organization. Leaders should set enabling constraints and monitor how they help the team, while also removing existing blocking constraints. We chat about the fundamentals of enabling constraints and discuss examples from technical practices. Adi Bolboaca is
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The 5th edition of I T.A.K.E Unconference, the only technology agnostic event in Central and Eastern Europe, is taking place in Bucharest, Romania, 11-12 May. With a line-up of more than 30 international speakers, 6 keynotes, 6 parallel tracks, a technical Open Space and many opportunities for coding, the event brings together top-notch software crafters who lead the change in
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As practitioners and trainers using Kanban, we insist on a few changes in perspective that it requires in order to be effective. One of them is capacity planning. Kanban, like Scrum, assumes that the capacity of the team 1 is fixed in the short term. This leads to the question: how can we use the current
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