A few weeks ago, I had a chance to be interviewed by Vasco Duarte for the Scrum Master Toolbox podcast. It was a great privilege, also because Vasco is a prominent figure in the #NoEstimates community, which I like too. Anyway, the series contains 5 parts, each one around 5 minutes. There is also bonus
Yesterday I had a blast doing an Intro to Test Driven Development presentation. Here are the slides: And if you haven’t heard it yet, I was interviewed on the "Agile Weekly" podcast. It is a great podcast (not just my episode) - I’ve listened to the entire recording list, and it has great discussions
In my last post I wondered why Agile emerged in the software business, rather than in another field. I still wonder about this, but in the meantime, something happened that made me think that “we’re not the only ones”. The new field? Video games. And I’m not talking about the production side, which is obviously
A funny thing happened to me last week. As I was driving to work, I was listening to another brilliant podcast from Manager-Tools on Assumptive Goal Settings. The curious name (for me, at least) is actually something we’ve done before. AGS is about reaching a goal, when you don’t have a clue how to get
I’m a big fan of Manager Tools. I’ve been listening to the podcast and recommending it to anyone, manager or not, for the last five years. A recurring topic in the podcast is Manager Tools co-founder Mark Horstman’s laws: It’s all about people More communication is better. And there are more, and I invite you
Last week I gave my “unit testing in the wild” presentation on LIDNUG. It was nice, and once the recording is up I’ll get all the info. But I wanted to talk about the experience. First of all: people, I’ve hit the jackpot. I’ve hit on one of the best ways to extract gold out
in Knetlik I presented over Skype, without seeing the audience. It was weird. But it didn’t start there. The preparation of the presentation took that into account as well. If you’re my audience, and you don’t see me, and all you’ve got to look at is a screen (and of course listen to my captivating
Scott Hanselman is moving to Microsoft. I’ve been following Scott’s blog and podcast “Hanselminutes” over the last year. I wish him luck, and that we all benefit from his new position. Scott describes himself as a geek. When he saw a CD, he wanted to see how it works (a quote from the last podcast
I listened during my commute to the latest HanselMinutes. This time it was a bit different. Scott talked Tim Ferriss, the author of the best seller “The 4-Hour Work Week“. One of the things Tim talked about why working on email on a plane is more productive than doing that in the office. The two
I guess this would be the second favorite, following Manager-Tools. How do I rate them? I guess it’s how long I wait from publish to when I listen. Scott Hanselman is a Boy Wonder. He’s the chief architect in his company, works with Microsoft .Net technologies, but dabbles with many other technologies on the side.