Mob Programming during the Explore Phase has demonstrated excellent results. In the following...
What You Should Know About Mob Programming in Explore Phase by Geison Goes
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Agile Culture
What is Scrum?
Scrum is an agile framework to solve complex projects. Scrum was initially built to software...
facilitation exercise: The round table fishbowl for group discussion
I have used this facilitation exercise in a few instances. Therefore I will describe it in this blog entry. This exercise is great for keeping a focused conversation, while having a large group of people. At any time, only a few people have a conversation (the fish in...
Retrospective exercise: 4 quadrants for lessons learned
Yesterday I run a retrospective for a group of people who were interested in the lessons learned from one project. Their intent was to look for do(s) and don’t(s) they could take for the next similar project. While deciding upon a data gathering activity, I...
Splitting CRUD stories
Two of my colleagues came across a CRUD (Create / Read / Update / Delete) story, and asked me for advice on how to convince people on splitting stories. I typically prefer to have smaller stories. In this case, instead of having one CRUD story, I would have one for...
Throughput over backlog
Last week I wanted to share the cool photo form the banana peel technique. When I was writing the blog post, I created the following sentence (following the Agile manifesto style): Lead time and throughput over estimation and velocity Paul Hammant...
CruiseControl: the open source that changed the way we develop software
I finally uploaded the presentation for the session Luiza Pagliari and I (Paulo Caroli) gave at the FISL 2010 conference. Enjoy it!FISL 2010: CruiseControl: the open source that changed the way we develop software
Continuous Integration adoption path
Luiza Pagliari (my colleague at Thoughtworks Brazil) and I, Paulo caroli, will be giving a talk on the history of Continuous Integration and CruiseControl at the 2010 FISL conference (International Free Software Forum) held in Brazil. Caio Kinzel, another colleague at...