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Book on Project Management using Scrum - #1 Bestseller in Amazon Spain
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From Agile 101 book: Real artists ship!
Sometimes, and quite often, we delay delivering our work because we believe it is not ready. We think that we still have things to improve or correct, that we still have to work on it. More often than not, that … Sigue leyendo
From Agile 101 book: The Ant and the Cicada
One summer a cicada was resting in a field, when she noticed a small ant running around here and there. – “What are you doing?” asked the Cicada. – “The Queen has asked me to build a new anthill!” replied … Sigue leyendo
How we used Scrum in our software projects
These days I have been preparing and updating a Prezi presentation about how we used Scrum (or Agile development) in our software development projects. You won’t find there a Scrum theory implementation but the process and methods we used to … Sigue leyendo
Functional tests with Selenium WebDriver
(Sorry, this is a technical post about software testing, but don’t worry, you can find here some of my non-technical blog posts) A few years ago we used Selenium IDE in a web application project just to check the functionalities … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum’s sprint 0 and the initial design
Sometimes we’re in projects in which we need to prepare a large number of things before starting out. Can we start building without stopping to plan or analyse what we’re about to do? When we read about Scrum, we get … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum for fixed-price projects
One of the most common questions we ask when we’re wondering whether we should adopt a methodology like Scrum is how to face the fixed-price contracts that are so common in public procurement and many other sectors. One of the … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum in a maintenance project
There is a common doubt among those considering using Agile methodologies to manage a project: would it be possible to apply Scrum to projects where, on top of the upcoming and planned tasks, there are frequent interruptions to solve maintenance … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: How to write an Agile book
Yes, you can also write a book in an Agile manner. Not only software can be created this way. All these Agile things can be applied to a myriad of fields, not only to technology. In this chapter I will … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101 book: Scrum’s advantages
Scrum pros and cons: blue pill, red pill I don’t want to become one of those Agile evangelists, preaching everywhere about how good and modern it is to be agile. But now that we’ve discussed the disadvantages of Scrum, we … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101: Scrum pros & cons
“There is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things.” Machiavelli Disadvantages of using Scrum How many technologies have quickly popped up and then vanished even quicker? They … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101 book: Requirements might change
A few years ago, before completely applying this whole Agile thing, I worked in the development of a web application that should manage the client’s worksheets through a series of steps, a wizard that would lead users through the phase … Sigue leyendo
New chapter from book Agile 101: Principles Behind the Agile Manifesto
Nearly 15 years ago, in 2001, 17 software developers met in Utah. They were critical of the then popular software-development models, which they considered rigid or heavy. That meeting included people like Kent Beck, Martin Fowler or the Scrum founders. … Sigue leyendo
Agile 101 book
Pretty soon my first book on Agility will be also available in a new English edition. You will be able to find there same contents and same topics that were addressed at the Spanish edition or that you can find … Sigue leyendo
5 Lessons learned in Project Management
Whenever I finish a project I try to have a look at what went wrong, what worked as a charm, and what I tried but it didn’t work out. Even when I get a final negative balance, the project may … Sigue leyendo
Keep it Simple, Stupid
Recently, after a conversation with a professional colleague on the current IT world, something reminded me of a Andres Diplotti cartoon I saw first time in Google+: As a programmer I have been for a long time, and partly still I … Sigue leyendo