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When agile is a buzz word

I am close to get a huge achievement in my new role, after 4 months that I joined this company (4 months including Christmas): we will deploy a new fraud system made by me and a team of 2. This… Continue Reading →

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The logic of estimates

While most of the team members care about estimate just as part of a routine of the Scrum methodology, estimating tasks is quite important for those members of the team, or even of the company, that deal with senior management… Continue Reading →

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Reality about technical leadership

In the previous post about “Theory about technical leadership” I just gave an overview of what I listened in a couple of courses on LinkedIn. I guess most of those opinions are correct, in the ideal World. I say that… Continue Reading →

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Why you need a Squad Health Check and you didn’t know

Have you ever heard about the Scaling Agile @ Spotify (or the so called “the Spotify model” or “the Spotify process“)? Well, I am not a big fan of it, but some principles, adapted to the different companies structures, have… Continue Reading →

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Theory about technical leadership

The best way to improve the quality of our work is to learn and keep up to date on new theories. And that is not all: even revising our knowledge is a good practice. I worked in agile teams for… Continue Reading →

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Hiring, promoting and firing effects on culture

We are used to think that hiring a new person, if he is valid, is new power for the company. Firing or not firing an employee avoid problems, increase performance and frees a place that can be replaced with someone… Continue Reading →

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On culture

Again, again, I knoooow, it is a lot since last post. I am changing company (again, sigh), so yes, I had to spend all my holidays, meaning that on February I went in Belgium, I did a coast to coast… Continue Reading →

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Team and employee engagement

“At a software services firm, a 50% increase in team familiarity was followed by a 19% decrease in defects and a 30% decrease in deviations from budget. On audit and consulting teams, high familiarity yielded a 10% improvement in performance,… Continue Reading →

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About a leader

I have been leading small group of developers, one way or the other, for a while now. Still I have never been officially a (tech or team) leader. But I worked for many years. I learn from the bests. I learned… Continue Reading →

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