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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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.
Stop feeling like a kid every time you ask a day off
Most companies don’t have unlimited vacations. Most likely, if you are an employee, your days off need to be validated by your boss. If you are like me, this...