Hi guys, in this post I just want to present a really simple idea how you can share knowledge within your team/organization. This activity is called “Book and Coffee Break Study Group”. How many of us read books on our free time and want to share the content of the books with other people but this actually never happened?
Enable Pair Programming Rotation
Hi guys, few weeks ago I wrote a couple of blogs about pair programming: “Intro Pair Programming” and “Ping Pong programming“, I believe these techniques are extremely useful to share a knowledge within a team. This week I will explain how you can enable Pair Programming rotation. This idea was taken from the book Agile […]
Ping Pong Programming
Hi guys, in my last post I gave a small introduction to pair programming. This post will be short where I would like to present a small technique that can be used during pair programming. I learnt this in Rachel’s and Liz’s book. This technique is called Ping Pong Programming and it ensures that both […]
Small intro to “Pair Programming”
Hi guys, some of teams, that I have been helping lately, identified a lack of knowledge as a problem in some parts of our product. To tackle this issue, they decided to start with “Pair Programming”. Previously, they never did it so they asked me for some guidance where and how to start. That´s why […]
Small intro to “Coding Dojo”
Hi guys,at the company, where I currently work, we are ramping up several Communities of Practices and one of the activities we want to introduce is “Coding Dojos”. This is the topic for today´s blog. A Coding Dojo is an activity that brings developers together to work in a pre-selected programming challenge. This is a […]
Rules to design good Unit Tests
Hi guys, this post will be short but in my opinion it is really useful for agile developers. Some weeks ago, when I was reading the book “Agile Coaching” by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley, I found an interesting part that I wanted to share: “Unit tests Rules” by Michael Feathers. Michael Feathers tells us […]
What metrics should we use in an Agile project?
Hi guys, this week I started to read a book that is part of a reading list for the CSP exam. “Extreme Programming - Installed” and I found an interesting chapter about a topic that me and my colleagues were struggling with couple of weeks ago - “What metrics should we use in order to […]
Agile Localization - Outplay the competition, enter new markets and grow Internationally
Hi guys! This will be my last post this year due to Christmas season. I would like to take this opportunity to present my new personal project. Together with my two colleagues, Vasco and Wim, we are going to write a book about Agile and localization. The general overview of the book can be found […]
Reading list
Time to time people ask me advice on what books should they read about Software Development, Agile and some other cool topics :). Based on these requests I am creating this post where I will keep a list of books that I think are really interesting/useful :) Introduction to Agile: Agile Software Development with SCRUM […]
How long does it take to run your Regression Test Set?
I want to dedicate this blog to a specific problem that we have during this iteration. This post is for people who have the same problem, therefore can benefit from it and get some ideas from what we are trying to do. Our feedback time is giant (Too long to know if we broke anything […]