Las elecciones locales y autonómicas en España han vuelto a poner de moda el Software Libre debido a su inclusión como línea estratégica por parte de algunos partidos políticos.Dejando a un lado el error que, a mi entender, significa politizar el Software Libre, ignorando pasados fracasos, me gustaría centrarme en otro riesgo que percibo, mucho … Continue reading Consumir Software Libre es bueno. Producirlo es mucho mejor.
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openSUSE transformation step 2. The user oriented distro.
openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release that was designed with a clear goal, target and metric. It was developed following a clear picture of where to go. Design it was a painful but unavoidable process that challenged an assumption established in many people mindset back in 2012. Latest/greatest and stability were incompatible. Hence, Factory, the … Continue reading openSUSE transformation step 2. The user oriented distro.
Bitacora: impact mapping
Introduction This is the fourth 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. Bitacora: personas Why Impact Mapping? The steps taken so far are standard for me since long time ago. At this point though, … Continue reading Bitacora: impact mapping
Bitacora: personas
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
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.
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