I’ve just came back from the Agile practitioners conference. I enjoyed being part of the organizing team – it was fun giving a hand and helping to make this conference happen. After attending an excellent “Lean problem solving” workshop by Claudio Perrone yesterday I was ready for a day of breakout sessions.We've kick started the … Continue reading Agile practitioners 2015
I’ve been a professional software developer since 2002 and worked for several software companies over the years - some practiced SCRUM, some used Kanban, some had a tailored made methodology and some didn’t have any methodology in place. When starting with Agile a few years ago I found out that “All waterfall companies are alike; … Continue reading The four species of Agile
If you’ve been following my on Twitter (or read this blog) you might know I’m part of the organizing committee of the upcoming Agile Practitioners conference.In the last couple of weeks we’ve asked each speaker to answer five simple questions (a.k.a 5Whys) and got some interesting results:Angel Medinilla's answersSession: Unicorns, Krakens, Self Organizing teams and other mythological … Continue reading Agile practitioners conference 5Whys challenge
I have been talking and posting about Agile for a few years now – ever since I discovered SCRUM and unit tests. In the past I had the pleasure to speak in the Agile Practitioners conference. It was fun, great local and international speakers and good crowd. This year I’ve decided to return to the … Continue reading Agile Practitioners 2014 conference
It’s been a while since the last time I’ve been at the UK and finally I got a chance to come for a visit.Next month I’m coming to London tom speak at the Agile Tour (1st Nov.).My session will be about how to be agile even if your company isn’t.But that’s not all – I … Continue reading Going to London X 2
Doing a standup meeting (a.k.a daily SCRUM) meeting should be simple – so how come so many teams are doing it wrong? I believe that a daily meeting is a good practice – and should be practiced by all development teams – with or without using Scrum or any other agile methodology whatsoever. And so … Continue reading Doing the RIGHT standup meeting
I finally hit critical mass! I got a request from one of the project managers (not my project) to do a quick “introduction to Scrum” session. It took quite a while – more than two years (and a downsizing) in order for other teams to notice that we have a different way to do things. … Continue reading Spreading the agile joy
Any project that uses unit tests gets to the stage where running all of the tests takes a lot of time. Even if you manage to keep your test suite in a manageable size From time to time a developer would “forget” to run all the tests before commit and break the build. One solution … Continue reading nCrunch review – TDD on steroids
Imagine this: you have two employees, both are hardworking and bright. You have complete knowledge of what the first employee does, which task he’s working on and its deadline while you have absolutely no idea what the other employee does. While the first employee shows progress every few weeks with new release, the other commits … Continue reading Agile might save your job
I’ve been preaching about the benefits of Test Driven Development (TDD) for a long time and for the last two years I’ve been trying to introduce the idea to my team with limited success – some of my co-workers embraced TDD while other "just didn’t get it”.At first I become frustrated and I’ve tried explaining … Continue reading Let’s do TDD–take #2
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