According to the Scrum Guide, developed and sustained by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland “ the Sprint Retrospective is an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint.” Well, if you do not know what a Sprint is...
Most importantly, when you first start with any type of speed training or sprint workouts, you need to start with just one or two sessions per week with plenty of rest in between each sprint interval, and limit the total distance. For example, beginners might start with just a couple ofst...
This is why you don’t tell your developers how to code what you need when to start, or which developers to put on which task. You simply tell that “the mobile user should have a persistent search bar at the top of each screen in the app.” From that simple one-line story, your ...
I am a Humanist, which means I have accepted that it is my responsibility to balance my need for autonomy and my social obligations in a way that benefits not just me, but the society in which I live. My autonomy is a socially embedded form of autonomy. This isn’t easy to do and ...
How to do tempo runs Alright, so you’re convinced of the benefit of a tempo run. Now how do you do a tempo run? Tempo runs are best used after you’ve built up a bit of a running base. Meaning, don’t plan this as your first run after a 6-month hiatus! Your middle-distance...
Once any bug has been identified during a sprint, the changes are made, and the new code is then pushed into the system. However, before these changes can be merged into production, they need to undergo regression tests in order to ensure that the intended functionality works seamlessly. ...
Context is important because many are simply afraid to step out of their comfort zone and need a concrete reason to do so. To create awareness, some difficult conversations may be required. Some uncomfortable facts may need to be shared so that people understand the problem and become more mot...
The scrum to which I refer is not to be found in a match on a pitch but a business where developers need to be agile and projects need to be managed like well-oiled machines. Scrum. What is it and why do you need it? Let’s find out. ...
Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It’s the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale. ...
This can force us to experience a very different reality. While there’s a frequent insistence from some parts of the player community that games are only about fun or escapist entertainment, that’s often not the goal of many developers. Sometimes that goal is communicating uncomfortable ideas,...