Pair Programming, From Pain Zone To Skill Zone
We’re doing pair programming almost all the the time in our team. A few weeks ago, we went to Devoxx Paris, and 2 team mates used pair programming at a hands...
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5 Books About Data Driven Lean Software Development
In french, we say “Le cordonnier est toujours le plus mal chaussé” which I found an English equivalent in “the shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot”. I belie...
A Lego Office Experiment
Rome wasn’t built in a day, neither will be your Lego Office … This week is Devoxx in Paris, for the occasion, we decided to stream a Lego office experiment ...
How We Decentralized Our Company’s Training Program
Maybe your company too has a development program you can use to track and organize your training path. That’s already great ! It is often not perfect though....
Trello Templates to Boost Your Remote Retrospectives
I already wrote how we started to use Trello to do our remote retrospectives. A while ago, my team mate Bilal Tayara started to collect our activities into t...
How to deal with the incentive system in an agile team ?
For an organization, there’s something schizophrenic about valuing team work, wanting agility but sticking to individual objectives and assessments.
Make hiring everyone’s business
Let me tell you a typical hiring story. A bit more than 10 years ago, I was contractor at a bank on a C++ front office application. The system had initially ...
Scrum teams do not need A Scrum Master
We don’t have an official scrum master in our team anymore. We now have 7 ! A different team member assumes the full scrum master role at every sprint.