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Agile Open BsAs 2009 – Sessions part 3
This is the last part: Session 4: What should I do with my junior developers? One of the principles of the agile methods is the self-organized teams, but this is not an easy question when you have junior people in your teams. How much seniority is required to have a self-organized team? How can a… — read more
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eSTImation MAnager (stima)
Last Monday, my classmate Maria Florencia Perez finished her studies when she presented her proffesional work: Stima. It is a software that allow users to perform estimations of duration and effort for software development project. It is based on use case points method and it provides some useful features like metrics, estimation history and comparison.… — read more
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New iniciative: AltNet-Argentina
Maintaining the spirit of the Alt.Net today Carlos Peix proposed the creation of a local Alt.Net group. After short thread of emails a google group was created: altnet-argentina. If you share the Alt.Net principles, just join us. — read more
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Agile Open BsAs 2009 – Sessions part 2
Here are some others sessions I was: Session 2: How can I evangelize my team? This session was proposed by me. During the time I have been practising agile I have found some people that do not «believe» in some practices and because of that they do not perform the practices that most team members… — read more
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Agile Open BsAs 2009 – Sessions part 1
In this post I will try to resume some sessions I took part on. Session 1: Technical debt This session was proposed by Vincens who introduced it commenting this article. I think that we all agreed that we should try to minimize it to prevent it to convert in a big ball of snow and… — read more
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After Agile Open Buenos Aires 2009
During the last weekend I was participating in this great event. As part of the organization group I am very happy with the results, there were almost a hundred participants and the sessions were very interesting. It was my first experience with the open space technology, I felt very comfortable with the format and I… — read more
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Agile Open Buenos Aires 2009
I have been involved in the organization of this conference that will take place the next 6 and 7 of March at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. This is the first activity we organize using Open Space. If you want more information please refer to: http://www.agiles.org/agile-open-buenos-aires-2009. See you there! — read more
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Bertrand Meyer in Argentina
Last Wednesday I attend to an open class by Bertrand Meyer at UTN Buenos Aires. It was about «How we teach programming». It was interesting but it quite filled my expectations. In the first part, Meyer did a review of the different ways of teaching programming in introductory courses (first year courses), explaining the pros… — read more
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New year, new opportunities
A new year has became and new opportunities will come with it. One of them is the call for entrepreneurs made by the Fonsoft. This call will distribute arg$ 150.000 between the selected projects. If you are interested in it, just read the rules and start writting your business case. Good luck! — read more
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SmallTalk class
Last week, like every end of semester I gave a special introductory class about SmallTalk programming. This time I decided to modify the slidedeck to put more emphasis on the fact that in SmallTalk everything is an object. The slide deck is available for download here. Enjoy it! — read more