Arno van Rossum

A developer once came up to me, and asked me, what is agile for you? This developer was not a junior. This was a guy that was in the field for at least 10 years working with various big corporations. I related the question to his sense of unbelief that

Frustrations pile up, you never get what you want, problems everywhere, and it’s never easy. As it turns out, remodeling a house and working on an IT project can raise the same emotions. But we are agile. We adapt. We improve. Don't we? In this talk, I

When working as an engineer, product owner, tester, or any role you have within an organization. Having a flow of work is outstanding. It gives a thrill of progress, and everything that blocks is an absolute pain. Sadly, the reality is different. Most organizations have a mediocre flow of work

A trend is happening with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery. We have to stop it from reaching mainstream! I present you with 6 reasons to stop this madness! You deserve respect! Years of experience in engineering, you are exceptional with production problems; you have arrived; you became release manager and deserve

I think there are 4 reasons when a scrum retrospective makes little sense. Either fix it or stop doing it. The definition [https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#sprint-retrospective] of the scrum guide: > The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. The Scrum

Everybody in the industry talks about code reviews, as they are indispensable and a developer’s life could not be without them. I want to talk about my experiences on a decade of code reviews and why I despise them. When I was a junior developer, we had the usual