Sustainable productivity in eXtreme Programming
eXtreme programming will not improve your short term productivity. But it will drastically improve your long term productivity.
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Are Software Developers Overworked or Undecided ?
During the last 15 years, I’ve worked in many different teams. Every team has its own way of working. I’ve been at places where everyone seemed busy all the ...
Mobbing around the world for 48h … who’s in ?
In Far From the mobbing crowd the Cucumber guys explain how they combined mob programming and remote work. Matt and Steve also explain that a mob is both res...
What Rails teaches us about building platforms and frameworks
More than ever, the cheapest way to build a framework is to refactor it out of a specific app.
How to run your first improvement kata
The improvement kata can solve problems that typical retrospectives fail to address. Although there is a halo of mystery around it, it’s actually not that di...
Lessons learned from running our first improvement kata
During the past few weeks, I blogged the story of our first improvement kata.
How we used the improvement kata to gain 25% of productivity - Part 5
This is the fifth (and last) post of a series of 5 about the improvement kata. If you haven’t read the beginning of the story, I recommend you start from par...
How we used the improvement kata to gain 25% of productivity - Part 4
This is the fourth post on a series of 5 about the improvement kata. If you haven’t read the beginning of the story, I recommend you start from part 1.