Why and how to start a #ZeroBugs policy - part 1
Some teams spend 95% of their development time fixing bugs … An entrepreneur I worked with reported an even scarier story. He went bankrupt because bugs were...
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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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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 ...
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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...
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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
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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...