Most Scrum teams are not agile
Being agile is about adapting to change and continuously improving. I’ve seen (and been) in too many teams blindly following Scrum (Scrum Zombies) without fi...
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A Straightforward Way to Scale to More Than 1 Scrum Team
How come the “agile scaling” landscape seems so daunting and bloated ?
Incremental architecture, a cure against architecture astronauts
Back in 2001, when I started to code for a living, fresh out of school, I was mainly doing a form of cowboy coding. After a few months of maintaining my own ...
How to get your team to do code reviews
As software developers, we very always often get to work in code bases that are not perfect. In this situation we have 3 choices : leave, grumble, or make so...
A seamless way to keep track of technical debt in your source code
I eventually stumbled upon a way to keep track of technical debt in source code that is both straightforward and already built-in most tools : simple TODO co...
How to mock your browser’s timezone with Jasmine and MomentJS
Last week, I’ve been working at adding a distributed countdown to my Online Planning Poker App. As our team works from Paris and Beirut, I wanted to unit tes...
Almost 15 years of using Design By Contract
I first read about Design By Contract in 2002, in Object Oriented Software Construction 2. As soon as I read it, I was convinced, today, I still believe it’s...
My Ultimate Jira Personal Kanban
A few years ago, I wrote about how I started to use Jira as my personal Kanban board at work. A lot of things have changed since then, which brought me to up...