- 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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- Saving the Continuous Integration I really like continuous integration, that's why I'm always sad when I see one dying. Unfortunately, I've seen it happen a lot, and in every case its lifeline looked like this.
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- Building a Bridge a.k.a Parallel Changes Several days ago, we had a coding dojo at Digital Natives.
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- When Expand and Collapse Got Beaten Today's post is an instructive story about mixing various good patterns and ideas. They are very useful separately, but when one uses them together, they may lead to problems which nobody wants to deal with at all. We found several different defects in a certain feature, and in order to reduce handover costs I collapsed them together to make an umbrella defect (defect1+defect2+.
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- Code Review During Retrospective Most of the retrospectives I've kept or participated in were about agile approaches (for example communication with the Product Owner) and organisation-related changes, but not everybody is into these. Most software engineers and craftsmen aren't that interested in how to deliver faster, or how to communicate better, they are interested in how to be better at their profession: programming.
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