În cursul primăverii 2019 am lansat în premieră primul studiu despre Agile. Am analizat modul în care companiile de IT din țara noastră aplică bune practici, de ce și cum se orientează organizațiile către metode Agile. Recepția studiului a fost pozitivă, de aceea anunțăm cu entuziasm că lucrăm de zor Read more…
While dealing with the increasing complexity of software development, teams need the ability to gain new skills while they work. Fortunately Scrum has some embedded learning with the feedback loops that take the form of Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective. But this kind of learning is more tactical. Meaning it Read more…
Last year we wrote a blog post regarding a cool academic initiative developed by the Cybernetics Faculty (CSIE). Students from the senior year were invited to form teams and build a product during the first semester using Web and Mobile technologies. This March Eduard had the opportunity to share the Read more…
Cum influențează metodologia Agile comunitatea de software din țara noastră. București, 9 aprilie 2019 – În contextul uneia dintre cele mai prolifice industrii ale momentului în România, cea de IT&Software, DOvelopers a analizat modul în care companiile de IT din țara noastră aplică bune practici, dar și care sunt interesele Read more…
First three months of 2019 helped me realise that this year will be different. We had the time to finish up the projects we started in 2018. And to study the market and prepare for the next initiatives. Our activity in the past years involved forming teams and creating a Read more…
Eduard had a wonderful time talking to Vlad Andriescu, Editor in Chief at start-up.ro. The interview was about how teams can maximize their productivity. We talked about Agile and software teams. In addition, we finished the talk with 3 things we learned from the past 3 years of entrepreneurship. Some Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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”. Read more…
(Please scroll so you can reach the the English version of the article) 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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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. As usual, you can see their reviews and find more details by clicking on caption, taking you Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Sharing ideas and connecting with people is an endless source of knowledge and ideas. In our opinion, meetup events are great enablers for this. Another benefit is that it builds relationships easily. Also, it creates a mindset of communicating freely. For example, last night Product Tank meetup was awesome. We Read more…
In April, we returned to ASE to hold a presentation about Agile. Eduard enjoyed the opportunity to connect with the students. And to share his thoughts on the matter. The presentation link can be found here. ‘I talked with the students from Economic Informatics (english class) about generating opportunities to practice agile. And about Read more…