How to avoid the “large-scale impact” pitfall
Applying willpower to have a “wider than team” impact on an organization is a recipe for burnout! Check the “Local Actions, Global Impact” strategy instead.
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A “Slow Code Retreat” to be less in a hurry
“Developers will always have more work than time” We can race our TODO lists or accept and slow down NOW. The “Slow Code Retreat” helps us do that!
A complete workshop for your team to see what’s a good test strategy
Teams often disagree about what is a good test strategy! So here is an all-in workshop to capture practices, define testing terms and agree on improvements.
How to make TCR evolutionary design practice sessions irresistible
Getting participants in a TCR code kata exercise seems complicated! Yet, given what TCR is, these sessions can radiate genuine fun and direct applicability!
A Surprising Way How To Teach Evolutionary Design
Evolutionary Design might be the most valuable yet impenetrable XP practice. Use TCR to practice baby-steps coding, the cornerstone of Evolutionary Design.
How to make a team facilitate agile architecture workshops
In The Serverless Mindset, I blogged about Event Storming and Example Mapping for agile architecture. How do you coach teams to adopt these workshops?
3 Things You Need to Master to Get Your Team Ready to Work With Serverless
In this guest post, serverless expert Marco Troisi highlights 3 key skills to go serverless, and how, as coaches, we can help a team to learn them.
How to help a team to find their preferred mob programming rules?
A dysfunctional mob makes coaching impossible! So here is a workshop for team members to try and find the mob programming rules that work for them.