Agile Practitioner IL - 3rd Meeting

Sunday evening we met for the 3rd time. This time Roy Osherove discussed 10 mistakes team leaders make an updated version of the slides can also be found here. During the talk Roy mentioned several books, out of those I really recommend Johanna Rothman & Eshter Derby, Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. For me that book was a career changer. I recall reading it as a team leader and for the first time I felt someone actually wrote a book that explained to me what a team leader job is all about. Also the book is filled with practical techniques that can be applied as is. from planning to conducting one on ones. Just the sort of advice I needed at that time. Scrum Master vs. Team Leader Towards the end of the session a discussion rose regarding the place of the scrum master...

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Posted in: Agile Management,Scrum

Making your team manage their own work

I really think that team leader should stop being the ones which split the work into tasks and decide who does what. I’ve written more about this subject and it was published here at the 5whys blog. (which is an excellent reading materials for team leade...

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Posted in: Agile Management,Agile Principles

Bug: $10, Future Bug: $200, Angry clients: $5,000, One TDD course: Priceless

When you write code for a living, mistakes can be expensive. They can create bugs that will crop up in the next version or the version after that, they can cause problems down the line for the end user who can't use the software and worst of all, they can create bugs that you spend longs days (and nights) working to find before the release. One way of avoiding these mistakes is Test Driven Design - write the test before the code and the bug (if any) is easy to find. And a course in Test Driven Design is not that expensive - and even less so today :) http://goo.gl/3VMqM...

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Posted in: Course,TDD

Introduction To TDD – Early Bird

Just wanted to remind that you can still get the early bird pricing for my upcoming training on September the 18th. People who will register by Tuesday the 6/9 will get a 50% discount for the course (making the cost only 600NIS per person). Details about the course can be found here, Registration details can be found HERE If you have any other question feel free to contact...

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Posted in: Course