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John Lewis IT Software Engineering Principles
Following the TOGAF's Architectural Principles style, John Lewis team have created a set of...
Defining software development
Let’s take a look at the typical Agile Software development workflow. First, we would like to clarify what we mean by software development. Paulo has a BSc in Computer Engineering, and a Msc in software Engineering, and all of us have been working with software...
Risk brainstorming activity
Every Agile project I work on has recurring retrospective sessions. At times I highjack the retrospective session and run this risk brainstorming activity instead. I find it useful to run this activity at the project beginning (on the first or second Sprint), and...
Tuckman savings via feature teams
On the past 7 months I have been working with a SW delivery team on a way that is conceptually different than many of the teams I have worked before. The main difference: Instead of forming a team to deliver a feature, a performing team works on a feature after...
A great Ice breaker for Energy Boost and memorizing names
Paulo: Zip Roger Roger: Zip Marco Marco: Zoom Mathias ... Zip Zap Zoom is a great energy boost ice breaker. I made a small addition to it for helping the team memorizing each other names. After the Z__ command (Zip, Zap, or Zoom), the person passing the imaginary...
Retrospective: understand perceived facts before reasoning
Reasoning is the core activity for a retrospective. But it is important for a group to have a common ground on what they are reasoning about. The group has to first look at facts and perceptions. All argument and reasoning must be based upon certain perceptions....
Timeline activity for retrospective
Below is a deck for a timeline activity I used on my last retrospective. Timeline activity View more presentations from paulocaroli.Previously I have used this approach for a collocated retrospective. I would draw a timeline on a white board, create 4 areas on the...