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

After an awesome workshop by Woody Zuill [https://twitter.com/WoodyZuill] on mob programming, we wound up repeating old patterns. This is a short story about our failures while implementing mob programming. Learn from our mistakes so you don't make them yourself... Joining the mob Mob programming is

I quote the title from the book Mythical Man-Month written by Fred Brooks and originated from Theodore von Kármán in the unique form “Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby

It is Friday and the deadline is today, your release is nearly “done” and we have to get this to production now. You are making preparations with the OPS team to get the release out. Because you did a vital change, the release is scheduled in the evening. Then you