We al talk about wanting to have more choices. But is having many choices a good thing. The more we have to decide on, the less we get what we really like in the end. When working with scrum, everything has to do with making choices. A developer does not like that [...]
Team members who continue work as a separate individual within a team are real impediments. They think that they work efficiently by just picking up issues that suits them the most and avoiding interaction with the team as much as possible so that they can go on with the issue “efficiently” without [...]
We, the development team members, spend 5 days a week 8 hours a day together but yet don’t know much about each other. The game that our Scrum Coach Erwin Verweij introduced to us last week, helped learn better about each other
The game is like this… Each team member makes a market banner with information [...]
There is a sad thing going on in our business. While most of us are working in agile environments, doing scrum, kanban or any other agile project solution . A large quantity of people is not and slowly they are getting outnumbered. Amongst others we are witnessing the final struggles of the [...]
People with the lowest individual velocity are assigned to the most complex bugs. We’ve found out that this practice increases development speed. Obviously, no one wants to fix complex bugs, so they work harder to avoid that.
A colleague sent this little text to me. I also got into an argument [...]
Writing good quality code is what makes me be interested in software development. If I don’t have the chance to improve my code at a company, I wouldn’t work there. It is so simple.
When a new project starts, it is always the attention of the Product Owner that everything should be [...]
It was dark in the office. All the workers already signed off for the day and wend home. All was quiet. Except for one room deep in the bowels of the building. The door was shut and within the windowless office a few people where crouched behind their computer screens whispering and [...]
I’m a big fan of Douglas Adams. As a child I was listening to the Hitchhikers Guide tot the Galaxy radio play on my small radio at night and later I read all the books. The idea that if you think live is strange, in fact in real live it is much stranger is very [...]
Often something comes to my attention. Scrum by the book. Teams who are new to scrum often tend to start doing scrum as it is written. And in most cases these teams run into problems, or better yet, challenges that are not written down. What to do with team interruptions. What must [...]
At the end of every sprint there is something that is known a the review. It is a moment to look at what has been done by the teams. Only often it is used in a way it is not meant to be or it is not used at all. It is so [...]
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