Tag: craftsmanship

4 October 2017 / Agile & Scrum
Why and how do we use pull request?

The goal of this blog posts is to share why a team I coached used pull requests and how we did this within the context of a midsize product. I share this experience, knowing it’s not a perfect example, as it might provide inspiration on the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach. The context The context is a customization and extension of an existing...

9 July 2013 / Less is More
Software craftsmanship round table v1

Just in time before the second round table, I will share with you a brief overview of how the evening went. We first started off visualizing all the different topics we wanted to talk about. We did a simple post up gamestorming technique followed by a silent sorting to cluster the topics. When everyone had a good overview of the different topics / questions at...

10 June 2013 / Less is More
Software craftsmanship vNext

Last week, on 30 and 31 May, I attended the I T.A.K.E. unconference in Bucharest, Romania. I was asked to facilitate a workshop there and chose to combine two of my personal favorite coderetreat sessions into one even more challenging session: TDD as if the baby meant it. I will write about this session and some of the feedback I got on this soon, so...

1 November 2012 / Agile & Scrum
Our first public learning track: Software craftsmanship

We've been doing in-house learning and coaching tracks for a while now and we've seen the positive impact this follow-up has on companies, teams and individuals. That is why we want to bring this idea to our public training events as well. So, to validate our hypothesis that this format will also benefit people that follow public trainings, we are proud to introduce our first public...

5 September 2012 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings
Free Retreats, our way to serve you and grow competence.

As passionate people at work, we are constantly on stage and we never take enough time to practise. Our retreats are meant for practise and sharing experiences on a regular base in order to shrink the gap between where the level of our skills are and where we want it to be. There is no pressure to actually achieve visible results or initiate change, the...

22 March 2012 / Less is More
Practicing lecagy rescue techniques

Check out Erik Talboom’s blog about the first legacy coderetreat of 2012! A little over a week ago it was time for our first legacycoderetreat of 2012 here in Belgium. I was lucky enough to work with Adrian Bolboaca again on this retreat. He is a serious influence and inspiration to me when it comes to software craftsmanship. I went to pick him up at the train station. Yes,...

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