I’ve been working with geographically distributed and dispersed teams for the past couple of years. Some of them on quite large programs, some of them...
0 replies - 1240 views - 02/08/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
In previous posts I covered:
Part 1: Mentor and mentee roles, gains and sacrifices, mutual respect
Part 2: How to choose mentors and mentees and mentorship...
0 replies - 912 views - 02/08/13 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles
Once a week, or anyway at periodical intervals, my whole team participates in a meeting to discuss a chapter of a technical book, or a rather long article,...
0 replies - 3409 views - 02/07/13 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
In part one I gave a bit of background history and also described the roles and responsibilities of mentors and mentees according to the Software...
0 replies - 615 views - 02/07/13 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles
It's a few days now after the Agile Practitioners 2013 Conference. Great people make great conferences, and they certainly did this time. I spent most of...
0 replies - 949 views - 02/05/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
Last week I gave a talk at the SFRails meetup.
It was by far the largest group I've spoken to and a truly enjoyable
experience. I titled the talk...
0 replies - 2549 views - 02/02/13 by Jeff Dickey in Articles
Let’s say we’ve “conquered agile”, and the prophecy came true: we have a self-organizing team.
How does leadership fit into this?
What does a...
0 replies - 1888 views - 02/02/13 by Gil Zilberfeld in Articles
Just yesterday, Tuesday, our team was stuck on the wrong side of a very tight deadline. We needed to reach a significant milestone by the end of the day...
0 replies - 1379 views - 02/01/13 by Peter Schuh in Articles
This article below I wrote got recently published on Techwell.
Nearly 52 percent of agile projects are following Scrum or some variant, according to...
0 replies - 1493 views - 01/31/13 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles
I think it's a safe bet to say that if you're reading this blog then there is a good chance that you're at least interested in Scrum. The problem is that for...
2 replies - 5943 views - 01/31/13 by Sean Mchugh in Articles
When it comes to discovering the best way to develop software or deciding what to build you will be hard pressed to find any certainty. We tend to work with...
0 replies - 1390 views - 01/31/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
First, a little bit of background and metaphor
In the medieval times, apprentices would work in workshops an would be mentored by senior craftsmen...
0 replies - 1554 views - 01/30/13 by Sandro Mancuso in Articles
When we create software we try to create something that is better than we are at carrying out a task, whether it is making decisions without bias, remembering...
0 replies - 951 views - 01/30/13 by Tom Howlett in Articles
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Last year I had a lightning talk at the ACE!Conference in Krakow (as you probably know, I’m a...
11 replies - 13624 views - 01/29/13 by Marc Löffler in Articles
One of the challenges in a program is how you manage the checkins, especially if you have continuous integration. I am quite fond of continuous integration, no...
0 replies - 1105 views - 01/28/13 by Johanna Rothman in Articles
