Remote Event Storming: Making Virtual Workshops Fun and Productive

Tired of passive attendees and multitasking during remote Event Storming? Discover how to transform virtual workshops into high-energy experiences. We cover breakout room roles, ‘remote-first hubs’, a...

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Leverage the time between sessions in a remote Event Storming

Learn how to make the most of breaks in remote Event Storming sessions. Discover practical tips for facilitators and participants to boost engagement, adapt on the fly, and improve outcomes between se...

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5 mistakes badass developers never do

Having a badass developer onboard will help to get sponsorship for a large scale refactoring. If you don’t have a badass developer nearby, or / and if you want to become one yourself, read on. Here are a five mistakes to avoid in order to become a badass developer.

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13 Tricks for Successful Side Projects

A collection of side projects best practices I learned from past experience

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Build or Buy Software? Identify your core bounded contexts with Event Storming and DDD

Event Storming and DDD are great at identifying bounded contexts. It’s even more valuable to identify the core contexts to focus on, and the generic ones to buy. This activity will help your team to prioritize more valuable work, and to reduce maintenance by choosing the good software to build or buy.

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Event Storming lessons from Post-It haters

Event Storming is a group design activity that uses a lot of post its. Unfortunately, post-its are not for every culture! After going through why post-its work, we’ll go over 2 alternatives: homework & feedback and walking skeleton. Could we also use these techniques to complement Event Storming?

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The unexpected contributions to a productivity increase by 25% of a fruit basket at work

As software people, we live in a complex-system world. To leverage on its non-linear effects, we need to multiply weird experiments. Here is the story of how our hacked-up fruit basket at work contributed to exploratory testing, a #zeroBugs policy and eventually increased productivity by 25%.

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How to use Event Storming to introduce Domain Driven Design

Although incredibly effective, DDD is overlooked by developers because of its abstractness. Here is a set of hacks to introduce DDD during an Event Storming workshop. Ex: Alternatives to convoluted DDD names, Group activities to pass a concept through, Presentation material for tricky notions

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eXtreme eXtreme Programming (2017)

What would eXtreme Programming look like if it was invented today ?

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Why Agile transformations usually don’t work - part 4 - Transparency

After going over the typical problems in large scale Agile transformations, I add transparency of vision and information to the pre-requisite

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Organization refactoring: Event Storming and DDD injection - part 1

Injecting DDD or Event Storming in your organization can be tricky. Here are some techniques to onboard your domain experts, one step at a time! 1st: practice on your side. 2nd: build trust with the cheaper example mapping.

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How to use Mob Programming at the rescue of Pair Programming burnout

Full-time pair programming is awesome, except that it burns introverts out. Part-time mob programming yields the same benefits but is sustainable. Plus, it is easier to sell to management, works great for remote teams and supports diversity! How to start mob programming? Try a few coding dojos!

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7 Books About Data Driven Software Engineering

Software is mostly built according to experts opinions. These 7 data driven software engineering books show us another way to a productive and sustainable pace. Ex: measuring the impact of a feature on the bottom line, forecasting the impact of a refactoring on the bottom line, etc.

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How to Grow a Culture Book

The story of our culture book and how it emerged from disparate documents

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Careless Mocking Considered Harmful

The problems I got into on a side project after using too much mocking. This is the first post of a series about how to avoid mocks.

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Almost 15 years of using Design By Contract

The story of how I discovered Design by Contracts, and how my use of it changed through time

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How to get the max out of your Team Coding Dojo ?

Ideas about how to push your team coding dojo further in order to improve teamwork and production code.

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eXtreme eXtreme Programming (2017)

What would eXtreme Programming look like if it was invented today ?

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How to start learning the tao of incremental code refactoring today

Things to do to become better at code refactoring

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Avoid mocks and test your core domain faster with Hexagonal Architecture

An explanation of why large systems tend to favor the emergence of mocks and what Hexagonal Architecture can do against that. Illustrated with Ruby on Rails code examples.

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Throwing code away frequently

A study on the practice of throwing code away, and of how and when it could be made to work

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You should refuse to develop what you don’t understand

Understanding is key to building quality software. In this guest post, fluentcpp blogger Jonathan Boccara presents 3 levels of understanding we should go through before we start coding. #1 Why something doesn’t work. #2 Why something works. #3 Why you do this project of feature.

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The best 10 seconds I spent on my Kanban board setup

Inverting your Kanban board columns is a cheap way to reduce multitasking and stress. Eventually, it contributes to a more sustainable pace. By adapting Kanban boards setup to our culture, we can make them highlight what can be finished instead of what can be started!

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Engage the participants during your next Event Storming thanks to the Delegated Missions

A DIY yourself workshop to quickly train your team on Event Storming and the Delegated Missions.

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The essence of Event Storming in 3 minutes

Identify events on stickies to make sure they happen as you wish. This is what event storming is about. Read this post and get an overview of the technique and its benefits.

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Leverage the time between sessions in a remote Event Storming

Learn how to make the most of breaks in remote Event Storming sessions. Discover practical tips for facilitators and participants to boost engagement, adapt on the fly, and improve outcomes between sessions.

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How to help a team to find their preferred mob programming rules?

Mob programming with a team is a great way to do technical agile coaching. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional mob makes coaching impossible! Getting a team to mob correctly is a challenge of its own! So here is a workshop for team members to try and find the mob programming rules that work for them.

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Scrum with component teams leads to Waterfall Agile!

Infographic showing how Scrum with component teams is not sustainable. Interdependent component teams + Scrum => Painful integration => Request for better specifications => More time specifying => Later Delivery & More Big Design Up Front => Waterfall Agile => Painful integration…

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How Immutable Value Objects fight Mocks

An explanation of how immutable value objects helps developers to remote mocks from their tests

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How to get your team to do code reviews

A walkthrough of a few strategies that can be used right now to get your team to do regular code reviews

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