Hacks Hacking a small project over the weekend - A personal projects portfolio web page This weekend the weather was not encouraging to go outside as you can see below. Weather outside this weekend.So, I decided to hack a small project for fun. The idea A few
Agile The Single Reason Why Your Retrospectives Don't Deliver The Value You Expect No matter what industry you're working on, if you do retrospectives or any kind of post-project evaluation exercise with the purpose of uncovering knowledge and finding out what can be done better next
Teams Main Differences Between Traditional Functional Teams and Agile Teams There are many differences between traditional functional teams and agile teams. Below I listed some that I think is part of the key differences between these two modes of team operation. Traditional Functional
Systems Thinking The Difference Between Systems Thinking and Reductionist Thinking In Software Development In software development, having a Systems Thinking approach means that you start from an event or a part of a system and tries to determine its connections or relationships to other parts or
Tutorials How To Create JIRA Workflows - Beginners Guide Creating workflows in JIRA might be a daunting task if you don’t get the foundation right. As a beginner, you need to understand first some basic concepts before implementing your first workflow
Teams When is the best time to have a meeting? Deciding what is the best time of day for a meeting is not always easy. But you can learn how to make this task easier and more effective. And you’ll be surprised
Management Deming’s 14 principles and Agile Software Development: A perfect match? I read an article that drew my attention; the article was about W. Edwards Deming’s 14 key principles for management. Honestly, I don’t remember to have read Deming’s principles in
Lifestyle You Don't Lose Your Job. Your Company Loses You. One of my fears was to leave my country and go to another country to learn about human development and technological entrepreneurship. I pointed out that this will imply into losing my current
mindset A Frog or A Horse? What do you see on the picture below? And now, if I turn the image 90 degress clockwise, what do you see? Most people will see a frog on the first drawing and
Teams What Is A Feature Lead? There’s a lot of resources explaining more in details many roles in IT, but one in particular I think it’s not well defined or explained. The Feature Lead. I have an
Software Development 6 characteristics of complex systems and how they relate to modern software development When I look back to my understanding of agile and lean software development, when I first came in contact with these topics years ago, I do realize that I missed it totally at
Continuous Delivery The Truth Is In The Past. How the UNIX design philosophy inspired nowadays software development I watched Jez Humble’s talk at Agile 2017 and among many insights, one particular thing caught my attention. He based his continuous delivery philosophy on the UNIX design philosophy. I’m a
Teams 3 Voices You Should Have Inside Your Team This article is not about the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Dev Team. Curious? I’ll explain what I mean. If I ask you to propose a way to organize a team that
Teams What's Wrong With Cross-Functional Teams - Part I What’s the best structure for software development teams? How should I structure my team? Should I use the Spotify Model? Which other options do I have? The questions above and many others
Teams 5 Traits of a Good Feature Lead What is a Feature Lead? A Feature Lead is a role, not a job title, that can be implemented inside software development teams. It might be starting point for developers aiming to become
Agile 3 Statements That Don't Leave My Mind Recently I’ve read some statements that keep coming to my mind at least once a week maybe more. 1 – Make it work, Make it write, Make it fast I’m a big
Tools Is There Any Simple JIRA Email Notification Plugin That Is Not Expensive as Hell? Finding the right email notification plugin for JIRA is not an easy task. You’ll find plenty of options and you’ll simply don’t know which one you should use. Also, most
Lifestyle How I Approach New Year's Resolutions This is that time of the year where most of us set resolutions for the new year that just started. We usually feel confident and hopeful that the new year will be a
Meetings The Most Used Retrospective Exercises This Year I’m not sure if there are any statistics about this, but last year I decided to keep track of many stuff. One of these things is which retrospective exercises I used and
Agile Book Review: The Bottleneck Rules Last week I’ve read a very interesting book about bottlenecks. The book was recommended by Mike Burrows during an Agendashift training I attended some weeks ago, and its name is The Bottleneck
People Ontological Humility - A Very Interesting Concept So, this evening I was reading some articles on Radical Candor’s website and I read a very interesting concept named Ontological Humility. I really liked the idea, and I think that this
Agile How To Get Fast Feedback During Retrospectives There are many ways one can use to get feedback after a meeting or retrospective. One of the best and easy ways to do that is to offer a feedback wall, column, space,
Teams Decentralized Decision-Making “Everything you do for the group is one less thing they know they can do for themselves” Chris Corrigan: The Tao of Holding Space This Sunday I was reviewing some notes and found
Teams When Scrum Becomes Toxic Scrum is without any doubt the most known Agile framework nowadays. It became very popular as the easiest way to introduce Agile to organisations and especially, as an easy and efficient tool to
