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Offshoring Agile When You Are a Startup

Working with an offshore partner becomes faster and cheaper as communication technologies continue to improve. It is possible to achieve agility with an offshore team as long as you understand the limitations. Although some of the principles from the agile manifesto are difficult to reconcile with offshoring, they can still be used as guidance to work effectively together.

Ben Linders
on Oct 03, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on "The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide"

The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide answers questions that new and experienced developers often have in advancing their careers. Topics covered vary from learning technical skills, getting a job, and dealing with managers, to doing side projects or starting your own company.

Ben Linders
on Oct 01, 2017
Culture & Methods

Scaling Agile – a Real Story

This is the first in a series of articles about making scaled Agile work with slicing, master planning, and big room planning. It is the true story from one particular program in a financial services company, the EU Mifid regulation of extended responsibility for investment advisors.

Ole Jepsen
on Sep 28, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book "Humans vs Computers"

Author Gojko Adzic has released a book, Humans vs Computers, in which he tells stories about the impact of inflexible automation, edge cases and software bugs on the lives of real people. He explains the common mistakes built into the systems and provides advice on how to prevent these mistakes from being built into our systems in the first place.

Shane Hastie
on Sep 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book SAFe Distilled

The book SAFe Distilled breaks down the complexity of the framework into easily understood explanations and actionable guidance. It’s a resource for acquiring a deep understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework, and how to implement it successfully.

Ben Linders
on Sep 18, 2017
Culture & Methods

Is TDD a Form of OCD?

Developers are increasingly testing their own and each other's code. "Evaluation anxiety" is common psychological condition that is directly impacted by self-testing and team-testing. Are practices like TDD a defense mechanism to protect coders from criticism? And do emerging methods like Behavior Driven Development represents a more emotionally healthy approach to team evaluation?

Gilad David Maayan
on Sep 15, 2017
Culture & Methods

Improving Corporate Cognitive Performance in IT Organisations

The biggest tool in the software engineer’s toolkit is the brain, yet few organisations go out of their way to educate and create the conditions in which the brain can work at its best. Explore the different domains of the brain and their links to the performance of software engineers and see what organisations can do to create workplaces that propagate advanced levels of cognitive performance.

Andrew Mawson
on Sep 12, 2017
Culture & Methods

Engineering Culture and Distributed Agile Teams

Franzen and Pahuja explain how a distributed agile framework can help distributed teams create an engineering culture based on over a decade of experience, and share actionable practices that help you get your distributed engineering tools and practices in place. Topics covered are devops, team structure, microservices, pair programming, T-shaped engineers, continuous integration and deployment.

Savita Pahuja Arjan Franzen
on Sep 09, 2017
Culture & Methods

The Burger House: A Tale of Systems Thinking, Bottlenecks and Cross-Functionality

A small, upscale burger house opens on a narrow street of Rio de Janeiro. Their system is optimized for efficient order taking. However, unfortunately, it is chaotic. One morning, a cashier did not come to work. Can you guess what happened? With a little help from the Theory of Constraints and Systems Thinking, we will explain in this article why their system actually improved one person short!

Rafael Sabbagh
on Sep 07, 2017
Culture & Methods

Oldies in Tech: Hiring and Getting Hired

Denoncourt gives advice to older job seekers with tips on how to go about writing cover letters, filling out resumes, handling themselves in interviews, and preparing for difficult questions and coding assessments. Employers will change their perspective of older applicants and see the benefits of hiring sage programmers that are smart, love learning and have a track record of success.

Don Denoncourt
on Sep 06, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Working with Coders

The book Working with Coders is a practical guide to managing teams of software developers aimed at a non-technical audience. In the book, Patrick Gleeson explores how the software development process works and what managers can do to support it effectively and build solid working relationships with coders.

Ben Linders
on Sep 04, 2017
Culture & Methods

Six Ways Agile Can Turn Static

Agile development in the right circumstances enables organizations to release high quality software that changes rapidly to drive businesses forward. It just doesn’t work all the time. Success requires collaboration, transparency and real-time visibility into project risk and quality.

Ronit Eliav
on Sep 01, 2017

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