Let’s say you start an agile project. You identify the requirements, write them down as user stories, define your releases, setup the infrastructure. Are you ready to start sprinting? Before we can answer, let’s try adding in more context. I see two different situations: 1. You have one team that will build an application starting […]
Do We Need Architecture when Doing Agile or Lean? Read More »
(Guest blog post by Jurgen Appelo, originally appeared on his blog. Republished with permission.) No matter how big the CEO’s desk is, an organization is not a hierarchy. It is a social network. People interact with each other across all levels. And even though delivering a software product is quite different from handing over the butter at the
Change Management 3.0 Read More »
I am at the Agile Cambridge conference, where I will do the “Taking baby steps” session. I was eagerly expecting Michael Feather‘s keynote, that proved to be full of insights. Michael Feathers has spent his last 10 years studying large existing code bases and trying to understand what influences their structure. He is well known
Where Does Code Fit in People Over Processes? Read More »
“Once you stop learning, you start dying” Albert Einstein. I am a new member of Mozaic Works team and I am involved in marketing actions within the company. I learn new things and improve continuously my knowledge to face the day-to-day challenges. Learning is a continuous process and we can learn from anybody. My
What does a Product Owner do? Read More »
My job involves working closely with programmers and testers, identifying their impediments and helping them find ways to solve them. The team can remove most of the impediments, much more than developers would expect. There is however a restricted set of impediments that require management intervention, usually in the area of: better facilities, acquisition of
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The Bucharest Agile Community had a meetup on “Estimation Techniques”. The topic was picked in the spring by the community and was so popular that a second session was required. The discussion on sprint planning was easier because less risks are involved. Beside the classic planning poker with story points we discussed about a few
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Wednesday night, Bucharest Agile Community had a meetup on “Estimation Techniques”. The topic was picked in the spring by the community and was so popular that a second session was required. This post is about the first part of the meetup. 15 people, including about four newcomers, discussed about estimations in two contexts: before the
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ALE2013 finished with the most fantastic day. It started with some minutes of wakeup gymnastics. After the speakers introduced their talks, attendees chose between talks on lean startup, continuous improvement, offers and pricing or software design. The offer was very attractive and again we had to choose one talk out of three going on at a
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What a day…what a night! So many activities and so intensive that I didn’t realize when the time flied. So, I am writing now about the day before. I will tell you shortly what happened yesterday. Flavius Stef and Claudia Rosu opened the day with the intro. They surprised us inviting the ALE kids (participants‘
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The first magic day started with the open intro made by the organizers. Jurgen Appelo had the opening keynote about the new organizational structure of the 21st century: the network, not the hierarchy. I realized from his talk that learning through experiments and remembered is the way to improve. After the speakers introduced their talk, it was challenging
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