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Having Eduard with us was essential for our transformation into a healthy agile ecosystem.
He moved our attention from process to interactions. With him we explored for the first time things like feedback, trust, respect and real team work. These things are fundamental for both high quality software and highly engaged engineers. He helped us move from component teams to feature teams, and coached into solving the big dilemmas of multi-team scrum. We could do without the dad jokes, but they come with the package 
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We knew that we could do things better in terms of processes and communication so we asked for some help. We reached out to Dovelopers, which was the smart thing to do.
From that point everything was easy. They asked the right questions, knew what we needed, what we would like to accomplish and they made a custom plan that would help us reach our objectives. The best thing was the fact that our team liked Cristina and Eduard and felt that they are easy to work with (we think that made a difference). Now we feel that we are on the right path thanks to them.
We would strongly recommend them to any company or business that know they can do things better and need some help and guidance.
We have worked with Eduard for a 4 months agile coaching program. Eduard had integrated in the team with the role of Scrum Master facilitating daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning and sprint retrospective. Using a variety of retrospective tools and techniques he helped us reflect on improvements, take ownership of the process and integrate new practices. He has great knowledge on Scrum, Kanban and software development, shared it with enthusiasm and showed will to help us make things happen. We definitely had a positive return of investment and I recommend working with Eduard as an Agile Coach.
Eduard had the eye opening type of impact on me and my team as he thought us the subtle buts effective habits of Agile. From him I learned the power of meaningful questions and the art of staying an observer in crucial and tense moments. Combining professional, team coaching with personal coaching techniques truly, helped me overcome my challenges.
Working with Eduard and Cristina (meaning DOvelopers) gave me a reset on a lot of low level things simply by showing me that everything is possible :). I believe they found a great method: $gabi->increasePadawanLevel(). Pun intended :).
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The new year is about…
At the end of last year, we took a moment to reflect on how was 2018 for us. It was a year of courage, action, and learning. And each new beginning of the year finds us thinking on a few words that describe how our approach will be for what is to come. Transitioning between the year, we also realized that we are embracing strongly one of the Agile Principles. Simplicity–the art of maximizing
Launching the Agile Survey in Romania
We want to feel the pulse of Agile within the industry and find out people’s perception of this subject. This is why we are launching a national survey. The questionnaire measures the impact of Agile methodology within organizations that have adopted it as a working method. We aim to discover the most used methods, techniques, and tools. We are also looking at learning practices and other initiatives implemented in teams/organizations. If you are a Scrum
How to engage Students in learning Product Development
Web Technologies (WT) and Mobile Devices and Applications (DAM), two disciplines from Cybernetics Faculty (CSIE), have joint forces and are approaching learning in a practical and modern way. More than 15 student teams have entered a competition where they must develop a software product and experience real-life development situations. Growing and building product teams is something we are passionate about. When we heard about this learning opportunity, we were happy to get on board. Eduard is acting
JSHacks AI Edition Experience
Last weekend, we enjoyed the JSHacks AI Edition 2018. This year, the edition was focused on AI. Therefore, the teams had the chance to learn about machine learning and more from their mentors. JS Hacks is an umbrella event, hosting a series of local hackathons organized “by developers for developers”. They are dedicated to all those passionate about JavaScript and innovation. This hackathon was facilitated and brought to you by Angular JS Bucharest, BucharestJS, jsGirls, Codette and Bucharest AI.
Astăzi, în industria IT, disponibilitatea te face mai valoros decât un angajat
(Please scroll until the end of the article for the English version, thank you!) Ce se întâmplă în momentul de față pe piața forței de muncă din România și în particular în industria IT reprezintă o criză semnificativă de personal. Cererea este mult mai mare decât oferta, ceea ce impune presiune pentru angajatori să crească salariile, să găsească metode noi de compensare cu beneficii, să își diversifice strategia de recrutare și să își definească un
Don’t Hold Back Your Daily Scrum Meetings
Sometimes the daily scrum meetings get a bad rap, some argue it’s an outdated practice and a waste of time. This is not your classical article about how a daily scrum is structured. If you need that, Mike Cohn explains it very well here. It’s rather about why this ritual is important and what can it prevent. Those 15 minutes of sync and alignment, about what the team needs to work on and clear out misunderstandings
How Agile transformed Testing
Testing – the island of bugs and production failures, where products and apps crash after a long development trip. Any plan that defers testing to the end of the project is broken. Thankfully, this changed in the past decade, as software development embraced Agile as a mindset and consequently implemented agile development practices as a way of working. Thus, having continuous feedback loops through implementation lifecycle and spotting those issues in proactively. Using concepts like CI
Rethinking change
The idea of rethinking change appeared while we did a review and retrospective on the past week work. It is something that we do on projects, we zoom in and out on our work, generate ideas and solutions that could be useful in achieving our commitment. It’s a common saying, practice what you preach :). The discussion took us back to a program we did in 2016 – 2017 with one of our clients, Adore Me, an e-commerce company (find out more details about
Productivity and software development
I am continuously looking for resources about how and what to measure in order to improve team productivity and efficiency in software development. It is a tough topic because you can either get caught in measuring too many metrics and not be able to synthesize and articulate solutions. Or you can remain blocked only on IT level, without correlating other operations or teams that have an impact during the development and post-production phase. I was looking
Why and what we do at DOvelopers
We are passionate about learning, software development, and personal growth. That is why DOvelopers came naturally for us and its core is based on personalized learning and coaching programs. We believe in our mission to help companies grow their teams in being productive and enriched with Agile mindset and practices. We summarized what we do in this short video below, check it out!
Books and readings (II)
We are back with part II of books we recommend reading. I think will make this a monthly blog post :). Today we went on a mix of technical and personal development books. If you read great books and want to share them with the world, please ping us here or on our social media channels and let us know about them.
Introducing Claudiu Draghia
Claudiu Draghia is a passionate advocate and a continuous learner of quality testing and software development, with over 14 years of experience in making things happen in software testing. He worked with different companies, from in-house projects to outsourcing, and has used various tools and methodologies in his work. His last role for several years was Quality Manager, but at heart, he told us he is still a passionate tester. Claudiu is involved in the local community
OpenScrum: what’s happening in June?
We are preparing some great stuff in June at OpenScrum learning space. We thought that after a short holiday at the end of May, there is enough energy to learn and connect with awesome people. So, buckle up, check what is in store for you and register!
Books and readings
A week ago, a friend of mine asked me to recommend some books on project management or something close to this topic. So I decided to write this blog post and synthesize a list of books that were read by me and friends of mine. The topics approached are project management, team management, product, business and personal development. So, besides the books from the header image :D, here is my list of books I recommend
12th annual State of Agile Report released
VersionOne recently released the 12th Annual State of Agile Report. It is an insightful report on Agile trends, best practices and lessons learned. The pool of respondents is worldwide and the data is extracted visually (graphs and numbers). There is a great balance between the expectations of adopting Agile and how the benefits live up to them. The top 4 reason and benefits that match are: increasing the delivery speed/time to market, manage better changing
Ken Rubin – Agile Transition Lessons
There are some moments that happen once in a while, which brings value on the spot for you as a person. The AgileTalks #29 Meetup about Agile transition was one of those moments I am very grateful for. First of all, the one and only Ken Rubin was the speaker. He is the author of Amazon’s #1 best selling book Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process. Ken is an Agile Thought Leader
Sprint Planning Tips
Sprint Planning is an important part of the Scrum framework. The better the planning, the more chances to succed in the goals your team commits to. Check our video for more details and tips. References to: Agile Methodology and Sprint Planning (Rules and Best Practices) How to prepare for Sprint planning well https://www.scruminc.com/yesterdays-weather/ https://cortelligence.com/best-practices-successful-sprint-planning-meeting/ https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-sprint-planning https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/scrum/meetings/sprint-planning-meeting/
Retrospective ideas
We are the no. 1 fans of the retrospective! This is why we made a short video to describe the concept and some ideas that are helpful before joining this ceremony. #agile #retrospective #connect #learn #grow
Agile for Startups
So, I got to listen to one of Kent Beck presentation at Startup Lessons Learned Conference 2010 about Agile for Startups (full video here: http://bit.ly/2D3vKN1). Short info, Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming, a popular software development methodology. And one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto. Agile for Startups Mindset He talked about how the manifesto should transform for a startup. Their context is different than an already formed company and team.
Retrospective, a crash course about the concept
This year started great for us! Because we managed to release our first online course about Retrospective in Agile. The crash course has 4:48 minutes and is presented by Eduard, Founder DOvelopers, and Agile Coach. He shares what is a retrospective and why it is good for a business. Eduard also adds some tips on how to implement the method. In conclusion, we hope you will enjoy it and find it insightful or helpful. RETROSPECTIVE