Information based backlog prioritizing
The general rule for prioritizing the backlog is that you do it based on business value. From the business perspective, this makes a lot of sense: you maximize the ROI by doing first the things that...
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The 7 Sins of Software Developers
I’m trying to assemble a list of sins for software developers. Ideally 7, since, well, this is the normal number of sins one would expect. I’ve come up with the list below. It is by no means final, and...
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I am sure that by now you have heard about Steve Jobs and his premature death. Here’s something you probably haven’t heard about. Dennis Ritchie died this week. You probably never heard of him. I never...
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10 Reasons to Attend a Code Retreat
You will love programming again You relive the first moments of programming (unless you started with Cobol) You will see how other people write code You will write and speak about code all day long....
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5 Whys Shouldn’t Be 5 And Shouldn’t Be Whys
Romanians have a class of jokes called “Radio Yerevan” jokes. My favourite one is: Is it true that Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov from Moscow won a car in a lottery? A: In principle yes, but: it wasn’t Ivan...
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When The Hammer Becomes More Important Than Driving Nails
Back in the 1980s a few developers realized that common patterns appear in the code everybody was writing. They documented them in 1995 a famous book called “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable...
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A Programmer Story
Last couple of weeks, a few things happened that made me think. First, I started building a prototype for a Java application in Grails using Eclipse. Second, I wrote some small tools for Mozaic Works...
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Raising the Bar for Models in the Agile/Lean Community
We are just a few days after the amazing experience that was ALE 2013. I enjoyed being for three days in a large family of European Agile and Lean practitioners, and I learned a lot from the...
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How to get the most out of a Code Retreat
Tomorrow is the Global Day of Code Retreat 2013, or as I like to call it, the programmers’ Christmas. Every year, I think of what I can improve in the code retreat to make it even better for the...
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The Craftsman I Would Like to Be
A few weeks ago I visited an amazing city that has become one of my favourites, Barcelona. Whenever I visit a new city, I try to see it not only as a tourist but also from the point of view of people...
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