Articles

1. Stop thinking in tasks, start talking about stories instead

   February 25, 2020, by Damien Klinnert

   Let me tell you about one of my favorite techniques for helping teams to accomplish their desired outcomes: user stories. If you find your team being slowed down by an enormous backlog of tasks, user stories might be just your thing.Read article

2. Guiding principles for a thriving remote team

   February 17, 2020, by Damien Klinnert

   The one thing that gets me out of bed in the morning is a chance to help those around me to accomplish great things. So when I found myself in a struggling remote team I couldn’t resist the opportunity to make improvements. This article outlines the principles that guided me along the way.

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3. Pair programming: common problems and solutions

   February 9, 2020, by Damien Klinnert

   I think of pair programming as a powerful technique that I would never want to miss in my tool belt, no matter what the project is. But similar to any other skill it takes a good amount of practice to master it.Read article

4. Why you should involve your developers right from the project's inception

   January 29, 2020, by Damien Klinnert

   From time to time I join a team, department or company that has not (yet) formed the sort of culture necessary for Agile software development to flourish. In situations like that I begin looking for opportunities to help my colleagues succeed. One thing I like to look at is how projects get started.

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5. Seven ways to explore the power of pair programming

   January 19, 2020, by Damien Klinnert

   For the majority of my career as a programmer I believed that I was way more productive when working solo. Had you been on my team back then, you would have found me almost exclusively wearing noise cancelling headphones, in a deep state of focus, trying to turn out lots of high quality code.Read article

6. A remote team set up for failure — mob programming to the rescue

   December 6, 2019, by Damien Klinnert

   Today I want to share with you an experience that has profoundly influenced the way I think about software development. It is a story about a bunch of programmers that came together, learned to collaborate and became a successful team.Read article

7. A great team is everyone's responsibility

   December 2, 2019, by Damien Klinnert

   As we’ve established in the previous article, to do the best work of your life you want to be part of a great team. But what do you do if the team you’re currently on is not that great?Read article

8. Together we code?

   November 21, 2019, by Damien Klinnert

   This is a website about working together. We’ve got a whole bunch of topics to cover, spanning pretty much all aspects of software development. Occasionally, we’ll be venturing out into related topics such as change management, mentoring, and good old-fashioned trust.Read article