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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 [...]

The kanban method is built around improving the flow of product development. It works very well when you work according to priority. It also works well when some items have schedule constraints. [...]