You and your team have just been hired by TopTop, the major toy manufacturer, in order to build the company’s next big hit, codenamed Birdie-Birdie. But beware: you have fierce competition. Other firms have been hired and only the one who delivers the greatest business value gets the check! Using only LEGO pieces, prepare to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]