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Writing unit tests on Legacy Code is an adventure. Today I spent several hours doing that with two developers, Mark and Yelena. The system has a flow you are used to and when you write code you [...]

Once you start unit testing, you will find significant benefits to your design, throughput, quality and peace of mind. However it is not easy to start it in an organization that’s not used to it. [...]

Working with teams I sometimes feel that teamwork is similar to the weather: everybody talks about it but not much is done. When I talk about teamwork I mean doing the work together, as a team. [...]

Many organizations are becoming agile to improve quality, throughput or many other good things that agile brings along. It thus seems trivial that if we want to measure our improvement we will [...]

Recently, I had the opportunity to work on legacy code with several teams from various organizations. I would like to share my experience. We usually start by choosing a piece of code that is [...]

Last week I called a technician to repair an electrical shutter that was broken. The technician did a good job in general, but there was one particular thing he did that made me think of him as a [...]

Sometimes you stumble upon amusement park methods. Remember the feeling when first going through the gates of a big amusement park? When you get a first glimpse of how vast it is? you see some [...]

A team I am working with is in the storming stage of their development. Finally. It’s been sometime that they have been forming, carefully learning each other, sometimes from afar. Each [...]

When we build the team’s board for the first time there’s many times the question of how to represent work in progress, how to show what’s going on between [...]

Organizations reorg all the time. And again. Why do they do that? Setting cynicism aside, organizations reorg to adapt to new realities, to new demands. A team of 5 people that grew to 20 people [...]