I saw this tweet a few hours ago and found the piece of code quite interesting: a small algorithm with searches, logic, external interaction and a nice comment explaining the whole thing. I could have written this kind of code ten years ago. Today, my problem is that my eyes start bleeding when I bump into a mix of …

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A quick retrospective of my Global Scrum Gathering Paris 2013 What Went Well The opening keynote "Culture > Process" by Henrik Kniberg. This journey throughout Spotify culture was inspiring. From now on, it will be difficult for me to think about organizations without referring to squads, tribes or guilds. The …

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I haven't written in English for a while on this blog but, in September, things are getting worse: I'll have to talk in English since I'm speaking at Scrum Gathering Paris! To be honest, I'm not really speaking. I'm merely facilitating a Soft(ware)Ball session. The biggest part of the job will consist in translating …

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A few weeks ago, James Shore had initiated an architectural design challenge for which I submitted an entry. Some other people also proposed an implementation. I have listed 4 : Ralf Westphal Justin Bozonier Alexander Beletsky James Shore himself I wanted to review these implementations. I tried to look at them …

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Last week, I drew a comic about software craftsmanship and I asked for feedback on the software craftsmanship discussion list. The main output was that my drawing could be interpreted as "software craftsmanship is superior to agile". Since it was not my intent, I'm trying to come with something better. When you step …

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James Shore proposes to experiment a design challenge to deal with architecture issue. It was posted a week ago and some answers already came out. I haven't looked at them yet and I wanted to try on my own. So, here it is. My solution is coded in C# with basic tooling : Monodevelop IDE, NUnit testing framework and …

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I watched a great presentation by Jeremy D. Miller : How does design get done on an Agile Project ?. Jeremy shows through multiple examples the kind of design issues you inevitably face during an project and explains how to handle them in an agile way. I converted the slides of his presentation into a flash …

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Thanks to Jeremy D. Miller I just discovered a place that is worth a web surf: Process, People, and Pods. Fred George started to blog less than a month ago and, in a few articles, he described the very nature of agile software development. From agility inner secret to encounters of the third kind (of developers) and …

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Ideal Day, Story Points, Load Factor, Velocity... Lots of concepts for a simple goal : predicting the amount of work that will get done for a given date. Anybody who went through this kind of measurement system probably tried to grasp its validity. Dave Churchville wonders "How long is an ideal day ?" in …

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