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The art of loving Mondays

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Reading aloud

Reading can both open and close your mind. In that respect, The Answer to How is Yes, promotes breadth over depth when building a personal library. What to do then? Pages and pages and tomes and tomes have been written about Computer Science and Scrum. That is to say on my degree and what my [...]

Sheer fibre

I used to take yoga lessons. The routine was almost the same every class. I loved the way my whole body felt after following it, so I decided to go over it every morning. After some months I managed to easily bend and reach the floor with my hands without feeling miserable. I was more [...]

The agile value stream mapping oxymoron

So I decided to read about Lean and grabbed a copy of Lean Software
Development, by the Poppendiecks. I’d heard so many times about Value
Streaming Mapping that I reckoned it must be good stuff. And so I read
about it. There goes quite brief a summary:

Analyze your current software development process
Write it down in a linear/sequential way, [...]

Don’t worry, it’s just a procedure

I just called an airline call center to make a short little question on their mileage program. I decided to talk to a person, not a machine. Same result, or worse. I had to answer more than 10 personal questions in order to prove I was myself. After the first five, irritation materialized. I tried [...]

Coming or Staying

Before embarking on a journey, it’s always wise to reflect on whether you want to depart from where you are right now…or not. If your job is easy, obvious and repetitive you don’t need Scrum. If your current way of working is effective, don’t change. If you feel at ease with your colleagues and your [...]

The spirit of Scrum

How is a judge to decide on a case? Written law is general, abstract, concrete but not comprehensive. Particular cases, context, subjective issues are not considered in the text. Why is it not trivial to be a judge or a jury member? Because they have to interpret the law. And what have they used for [...]