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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?

agile

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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Chernobyl Driven Development: 10 lessons learnt from the miniseries

Inspired by the success of the series about the Chernobyl disaster, these are 10 lessons learnt from it so you too can make sure your project is a bomb.

learning

From a newbie, to a newbie

It's been less than a year since I joined 10Pines, and a little more than two since I started working officialy as a programmer. I don't like calling myself a junior developer because

ruby

Ruby On Pains

Have you ever heard about the Rails way? I would like to introduce some pains that I've seen and keep seeing in all the Rails projects due to the Rails way... ActiveRecord How

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Two ways we understand code: Unitary vs Integral understanding

There is an often unresolved question in software about comments and documentation. It is said that code should be "self-documenting", thus comments can be a sign of a lack of clarity in the code.