Thoughts

The positive impact of mob programming from Chris Lucian & Austin Chadwick for #WhoIsagile #WIa60

  #Interview with  Chris Lucian & Austin Chadwick for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa060) Chris & Austin were invited by Patrick Debois We talked about: - #Mob Mentality - A tight coupling by having fun and #effectiveness - Merging aspects from different parts of life and integrating them - Austin being influence by his partner. - Tight feedback loops with #children - Talking about how #ComputerScience was almost an accident - Starting IT for #money and liking it - Valuing... Read more >

Emily Bache never stopped programming, as that is the fun part… #WhoIsagile #WIa59

#Interview with Emily Bache for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa059) Emily was invited by Clare Sudbery (she/her) We talked about: - Working with #legacy code - How her husband influenced her #career. - Going to #conferences as a couple - Finding coding fun - She does not want to stop coding as that is the fun part. - Doing co-presentation - Having children that are not interested in programming - #Singing in choirs - Working as a musicians... Read more >

Empowering the client with a red button…

Some years ago I worked with a team that was doing continuous integration. We wanted to move to continuous deployment, yet we could not convince our client to do so. Although we could not install automatic, we did build a pipeline for our installation.  At that moment we did demos at the end of our sprints. When the demo was finished we asked the client... Read more >

Alexis Monville prefers impact over features #WhoIsagile #WIa058

#Interview with Alexis Monville for the #video edition of Who is #agile (#WIa058) We talked about: - what he learned from the #codereviews of his first boss - Cofinding a web company before the webs had really taken off - Why he prefer to focus on the #impact over the feature he delivers - Working while being in school. - Something I don't know how to do it, and then I work with other people and together... Read more >