- Conversation: "What Do You Want to Do?" One of my colleagues came to my desk yesterday and started a conversation in the team area with me.
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- Still Suffering from Group Punishment I thought - and somehow hoped - that after school we would never have had the pleasure of being victims of group punishment again, but I was wrong. Group punishment was very common in my school and in my neighborhood.
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- ACCU 2012 The last weeks were a bit busy and I didn't have the chance to share my slides from ACCU2012, but now I have some time, so here they are.
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- Daily Stand-up is About the Future not the Past In the last couple of weeks, I was thinking a lot about daily stand-up meetings for two particular reasons.
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- Listen to Experts but Trust Your Team Members Back when I was working in a project as a team leader, on a cloudy Thursday an expert took me aside to talk about the time reporting of one of my team members. He pointed out that the team member in question spent about 6 hours doing a certain task which he - the expert - could have done in 15 minutes.
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- Speaking at Ericsson Hungary It may sound strange at first, but I was ask by my former employer Ericsson Hungary to give an invited talk. There were two sessions.
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- Visit at Cluj Napoca My old friend Victor invited me to Cluj Napoca, Romania to talk about software development in practice. There were three talks in the morning at his company evoline and a fourth talk late afternoon at the local meetup group. We started the day with an introduction to Kanban, because the audience knew about Agile, but Kanban was something new, and additionally we needed it for the maintenance-related presentation: Kanban Basics for Beginners Revised from Zsolt Fabok After a short break we continued with a longer talk about maintenance and how to use Agile, Lean, Kanban and leadership techniques in order to stabilise a maintenance situation: Kanban Basics for Beginners Revised from Zsolt Fabok The last presentation was about how to use Agile techniques without saying Agile: Agile in Stealth Mode from Zsolt Fabok My talk at the meetup became a bit longer than I expected, but we had - at least I felt like that - a great discussion how the software development process evolved at Digital Natives - my current company - and, uniquely, we talked about what we were doing right and where we failed: Evolution of the Software Development Process at Digital Natives from Zsolt Fabok I promised a list of books worth reading.
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- Local Leadership Fail Today's post isn't about software development, it is about an epic leadership fail I had the honour to live through. As it happened, I had to go shopping several days ago. There is a nice store nearby, I go there all the time, but this time I got into the middle of an unpleasant situation between the cashier ladies and a customer.
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- Weekly - CW15 While I spent most of my time with learning more about Ruby on Rails and RSpec this week, I found the following links worth sharing. So here is my collection for calendar week 15, 2011.
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- Weekly - CW14 Without further ado, here is the collection for calendar week 14, 2011.
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- Weekly - CW13 It's been a quite busy week, but here come the links for calendar week 13, 2011.
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- Weekly - CW12 I usually exchange interesting articles, presentations and links with my friends in many different ways. I thought it would be better to use one simple way, so I'm going start a weekly series where I post articles, presentations and links I read during the week and find interesting.
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- Agile Seating Layout A couple of weeks ago my team started to do things differently than before, and I promised I'd write about the effects of certain changes and new improvements. Effective and fluent communication is essential for an agile workspace, but unfortunately our former seating layout didn't support either of that, so we changed it, inspired by an idea from Martin Fowler.
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- Kanban Nightmares I've mentioned in my previous post that I have less time for coding nowadays. I've started to lead a new team with the intention to introduce Kanban in their way of working. In this post, I'm going to share the result of this introduction. In these last few years I've had opportunities to observe coaches and consultants how they help teams and organizations.
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- About Job Interviews I'm reading a lot about how to turn organizations to agile, but there is one thing which is rarely considered.
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- Handling Additional Resources Firefighting happens usually during bug fixing and at the end of projects, when the project may or may not be as successful as people want it to be. In this particular post, I'm going to talk about the latter case. Usually, when the project is in trouble, management offers more (human) resources in order to finish the project in time and deliver the committed scope.
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