When I talk to different companies in the software industry about how they work I often hear the expression that we use “a sort of scrum” or “we have our own version of scrum”. I hear a warning bell from those kind of statements. Agile and Scrum are buzzwords that most companies like to boast …
When I work as a scrum master, one of my bibles is “Agile Retrospectives – Making Good Teams Great”. It describes a number of patterns and exercises that one can use during retrospectives. When you work iteratively, especially when you have short iterations, it can easily go routine in the retrospective. It gets boring and …
It begins as a feeling in the abdomen, something that gnaws and feels quite uncomfortable. They did not know how right they were, Martin Fowler and Kent Beck who coined the phrase code smell or perhaps they did. Well, I have identified some place in the code that gnaws and smells and begin to refactor. …