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A collection of 34 posts

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Prioritization

Prioritization can be tricky. What are the factors involved, and which tools can help with it?

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When not to pair

Sometimes, pairing is not going to add the extra value we're looking for... which are those moments? let me go over some scenarios where it's probably better to work alone.

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The 7 wastes of Contemporary Agile Software Development Teams

What are the greatest sources of waste in modern agile development teams? Fede shared his perspective in Agiles 2021. This post is a brief summary of it.

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Caso de diseño: ilustrando un libro sobre metodologías ágiles

¿Qué son las metodologías ágiles y qué recursos gráficos eligen para comunicar sus conocimientos? ¿Cómo es escribir y diseñar un libro desde una empresa horizontal? Te voy a contar el camino que recorrimos con Gabriela Iztueta para ilustrar el primer libro escrito desde 10Pines.

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Leaving a codebase

I'm leaving a codebase where I contributed for 6 years. I've made more than 2000 commits and I've added, modified, and removed a lot of lines of code. Here are some things I have in mind as part of my offboarding process.

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Planning

Agile changed the way we work, thus the way we plan. How does Planning work in the Agile world?

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Sharing Knowledge in an improvised way

I recently facilitated a Knowledge Sharing session in my team without planning it too much, and I’ll walk you through some interesting takeaways of that activity.

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User Stories

Since they were invented, user stories have become the building block of Agile iterative and incremental development approach.

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Estimations

This post is about dreaded estimations. Let’s think about why we do them, what problems they bring to the table and what the Agile estimation approach is in comparison to other approaches.

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¿Estimar no sirve para nada?

Números y tiempos, scopes y complejidades... ¿De qué sirve ocupar el tiempo en toda esta predicción? ¿En qué mejora el resultado final? ¿Qué ganamos? ¿Será que estimar no sirve para nada? Mmmm, a ver...

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This is not a User Story, or is it? Thoughts about telling and managing stories

We surely agree that there’s nothing better than users telling the dev team such stories. But, How should we call them? User stories, backlog items, story cards? And even more important: what is the most efficient way to write and manage these stories?

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Product Discovery: Highlights from my Agile Software Development book

At 10Pines we build software for several types of customers; from large corporations and even when the needs, the size of the problem and obviously the budget differ, we always begin with a Product Discovery, where we meet with the specialists in the business, our clients, to create a shared vision.

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Anonymity vs. Agile maturity... (vs?)

Does anonymity play any role in agile teams? Even more, can we pretend to pursue a mature agile environment when members of the team are afraid to take ownership of their opinions? Let's think of a few tips to evolve into trust and self-confidence on agile teams.

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Pull Request enormes: ¿Cómo evitarlos?

¿Alguna vez han revisado un PR demasiado grande como para hacer una buena review? ¿Cuántas veces han hecho un PR así? Esta es mi receta para poder evitarlos.

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Desarrollo de Software Ágil en 10Pines

Después de 2 años de trabajo, a veces intenso y otros no tanto, finalicé el libro 'Desarrollo de Software Ágil en 10Pines'. Y en este post se los presento.

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Finding the path to meaningful standups

Standups tend to have a fixed structure. In my team we stepped out of the box and chose to turn it totally upside down. Wanna know how and why? Read on!

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Heart of Agile Teams at 10Pines

What's the formula to make excellent teams work the way they do? How can we extend that to the whole organization? Here I show you our own recipe at 10pines

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The model behind Git

When it comes to version control systems (VCS), we can start naming a few of the most popular, like Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce, etc. Nevertheless, at this time our focus will be on Git, which is the one we commonly use at 10Pines. This tool allows us to work in a

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Ready! Set! Retrospect! Breaking the ice on Agile Retrospectives

There are a lot of glitches or complications that might arise when facing retrospectives in which a team should come clean on opinions and experiences, about themselves or about each other. Let’s dig out and analyze some of the problems we could be facing and, hopefully, sweep them off the board.

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What does "No bosses" mean?

This week an Argentinian newspaper published an article about the way we organize ourselves here at 10Pines. We noticed that people over the internet had questions about our culture, so I’d like to try and clarify a little bit here.

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Trapped by transparency or trapped by culture?

Transparency has become one of the most popular demands in the recent years and for good reasons. Not so far ago, we went through one of the biggest global financial crisis, caused by large investment groups and credit rating firms hiding the real risk of financial products to their clients.

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Tips for introducing yourself in a conference or 'the conference elevator pitch'

I've decided to write down guidelines to introduce yourself and getting to know the other person, avoiding typical mistakes.

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Review of Agile 2015 @ Washington DC

The organization & the conference This was the biggest conference I’ve ever attended. There was 2300 registered people. 5 days of talks. More than 13 tracks in parallel every hour. Everything was in big scale. One thing that called my attention was the average age of the attendees; I’m

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Enterprise Lean Canvas

A few days ago, we were asked to estimate a new big extension for a previous application we developed a year ago. Since we had a strong deadline to send this proposal, and we couldn't do it the way we are used to (through a Product Discovery Workshop), we decided

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The Backlog Guy

Introduction Yeah, this is how everyone called me in my latest gig. You want to hear the story? (I heard yes). It was a green field, ambitious project that was going to be performed differently than other projects in the same organization, using design thinking and Agile. People (mostly business