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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. [...]

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 [...]

When I was a kid cars didn’t have seat belts at the back seat. We used to fly to and fro all over whenever the car took a turn. These days my kids shriek with horror if we forget to buckle [...]

When we talk about the benefits of working with small batches we talk about risk reduction, about improving flow and getting quick feedback. I call these reasons “scientific”. I [...]