If you work within agile teams, then you have most likely heard about vertical slicing, the most common definitions are the ones that say a vertical slice is the slice that goes across all architectural layers, reaches production and delivers value...
Talking about Scrum trainings, I will be clear, I don’t like generic workshops, yes I understand that most of them try to transmit the message and purpose of the different roles, events and artifacts, etc… but I believe that workshops...
When was the last time you heard – “We need to handover this project to the new team”? Don’t get me wrong, we sometimes need to handover projects, knowledge, products, etc… it’s natural, new people join...
This is a question I have been asking myself for a while, and every day I’m a little bit more convinced that a good roadmap it’s key for a team to be self-organized. First of all you and I might not have the same understanding of what a...
Today is very common to hear about ownership and accountability, it seems like during the last years the expectations have changed quite a lot, teams are now expected to “own” much more their products, and be accountable on their...
The people that works with me know that I’m quite clear with certain things, for instance, for me technical excellence should not be optional, don’t get me wrong, technical excellence does not mean over-engineering things, it does not...
Yesterday I saw this on twitter: Mirando solo el código: ¿Serías capaz de saber si fue construido ágilmente? — Agustin Cuenca (@agustincnc) 28 de mayo de 2019 Basically, the poll says: “Looking only at the code: Would you be able to know if...
Last week I was thinking in a retrospective model I could use for a retro I was going to have the next day, the team, in this case, is close to a date where they have to deliver a particular set of features, we have been doing Sprints of one week...
We all read in books how great is to have our product with lots of unit tests, automated tests, integrations test, etc… but we don’t always are lucky enough to work like this, most of my professional experience has been working on quite...
There is a team who has been working really hard to achieve a deadline, the deadline actually is next month, currently, they are in the last month and nerves and stress starts to pop up. I was in their Stand Up this week where one of the developers...