While interacting with various agile software teams, we have observed that most of them have measured success using process metrics – velocity, time to market, cycle times, resolved issues, planned vs done work. This year we conducted a study about agility in the romanian software community. Most respondents evaluated that Read more…
In the previous blog post I wrote about miscommunication and what it may be shaped liked. Managing interactions is a day to day job and sometimes it can be balanced. And other times, it just doesn’t work as we expected. You can blame it on bad coffee, on the other Read more…
In my professional and personal experience, I find myself in many miscommunication situations. Talking to my friends, clients and work colleagues and looking retrospectively, I came to the conclusion that there are five ingredients that mixed together result in miscommunication. Firstly, we often find ourselves in situations of misunderstanding and Read more…
I am a fan of working agreements. I see them as a way of getting to know the team you work with. And it is a great technique to enhance safe working spaces. The theory says that working agreements (WA) are a set of rules generated by the entire team Read more…
Welcome back to the second part of the To do list blog post 🙋♂️. Last time I mentioned about my rediscovery of data structures that felt like a breath of fresh air. If you haven’t read the first part, you can check it out here: https://www.dovelopers.com/to-do-lists-and-the-death-of-passion-in-it-part-one Tree structures are specific Read more…
I don’t recall meeting someone that works in IT not mentioning about managing long to do lists. I remember being in the same situation in 2014. In those times I was testing so many productivity systems. And list management became the preferred one among my colleagues. Meanwhile, complexity appeared and 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…
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…
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…
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 Read more…
This year starts with a great news! 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 Read more…
You will not get productivity leaps in your company if all you do is send people to time management courses. And request them to report activity or strictly control the processes. No matter how much you rely on resource efficiency, you will be hit by a problem of capacity. In Read more…