Agile
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A new talk in the making? (User) Stories for Developers
At Ingewikkeld, we hold internal presentations to share knowledge between us. Recently, it was my turn; I wanted to tell a story, on stories. In our field of Software Engineering, one of the hardest things (besides naming) is to break down work into manageable pieces of work. In this presentation, I demonstrated how you take…
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Shape, Form and Detail: What developers could learn from drawing techniques
When you are like me and love practising your art as a developer then it hurts to build something only to throw it away later on. Many books, articles and opinions centre around the notion of good code; in this post, I want to make a case that you, initially, should not focus too much…
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An introduction to Scrum
Whilst attempting to enrich my knowledge about Agile methodologies and Scrum in specific I found the site Learning Scrum. This site turned out to be a jewel and it contained a video of a Google Tech Talk by one of the Godfathers of Scrum, Ken Schwaber. In this talk he explains the history and purpose…