Introduction This is the third of a series of articles about Bitacora. Please read the previous ones to get full context: The diary (aka bitácora): towards alignment in distributed environment. Bitacora: environment definition. The environment description is incomplete without the personas. I like this concept for many reasons but the main one is because I … Continue reading Bitacora: personas
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Bitacora: environment definition
Introduction This is the second of a series of articles about Bitacora. Please read the first one to get full context. In order to understand the perfect implementation of a Bitacora we need to go down the road of a product definition. One of the first steps is to define the environment. Bitacora is specially … Continue reading Bitacora: environment definition
The diary (aka bitácora): towards alignment in distributed environments
Article that introduces the concept of project/team/program journal/diary/bitacora
Apply agile methodologies to upstream development environments…. if you can.
IntroductionWhen the Agile Manifesto became popular and based on them, agile methodologies like Scrum, XP or Kanban, upstream development was in its early stages as collaboration ecosystems of companies.Only a few for profit organizations embraced developing upstream back then. Most of them were small and heavily influenced by FLOSS engineers vision. Free software communities were … Continue reading Apply agile methodologies to upstream development environments…. if you can.
Where the corporate and the upstream worlds meet…. or collide.
From the corporate world I frequently hear how hard it is to predict and track what upstream developers do. On the other side, developers that work part or full time upstream frequently underestimate the need for communicating what they do in a way that enable others (or themselves) to provide deadlines and effort estimations. Upstream … Continue reading Where the corporate and the upstream worlds meet…. or collide.
¿Por qué España no es una potencia en software?
¿Por qué España no es una potencia en la industria de software?Una explicación se encuentra perfectamente reflejada en este artículo: Management is not a promotion.De vez en cuándo me realizan esa pregunta o algunas similares. Mi respuesta a menudo es:¿Cuántos ingenieros de software de 50 años conoces en España que sigan echando código? ¿Y cuántos … Continue reading ¿Por qué España no es una potencia en software?
Team blog: more than just a blog.
Motivations Creating high quality contents takes time. A lot of people write nowadays but very few are writers. In the software industry, most of those who write very well are in the marketing side not on the technical side. The impact of high quality contents is very high over time. Engineers and other profiles related … Continue reading Team blog: more than just a blog.
First weeks al Linaro and other things
I few weeks ago I announced I was joining Linaro. I work there as Director of Core Development Group. I moved from Prague to Cambridge (the original), that is, from continental to oceanic climate. From dry, cold in winter and hot in summer to wet, soft in summer and above zero most of the winter. … Continue reading First weeks al Linaro and other things
Opening doors
In a previous article I wrote about the end of a professional (and also personal) cycle. Today I want to announce the new journey I am starting.A couple of weeks ago I relocated to Cambridge, the original, and from now on, the one and only :-). A new professional and personal project has brought me … Continue reading Opening doors
Abriendo puertas
En un artículo anterior escribía acerca del fin de un ciclo personal y profesional para mi. Hoy escribo sobre la nueva aventura en la que me he embarcado.Hace unos días me trasladé a Cambridge, la original y, a partir de ahora, la auténtica. 🙂 Me ha traído una nueva aventura profesional. Linaro ha tenido la … Continue reading Abriendo puertas
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