Cross Functional Teams in Munich

A good article by Stylight on their approach on cross functional teams!

Why we formed cross-functional business teams at STYLIGHT http://t.co/E6D7OzhIul #blog

— Manuel Küblböck (@ManuelKublbock) 26. Februar 2015

Page Listing Technology Stacks: Stackshare.io

Discover what top companies are using Learn about the tech stack behind some of the world's best software companies. See which tools and services they use, and how they're using them. Stackshare.io

The Three Rules of the DevOps Game

New essay by Mary Poppendieck: The Three Rules of the DevOps Game

Non-Proper Problem Solving

If this happens to you then you just need help:

Today's Random Friday Fun was found by @get_cookie, felt it needed to be passed forward: The 5 Stages of Debugging pic.twitter.com/55pfc7CwC3

— Erlang Solutions (@ErlangSolutions) 16. Januar 2015

Lean Startup Board Game

I really liked the Kanban Board Game, hope this Lean Game will become a reality:

The Playing Lean game is up on Kickstarter from my friends at Iterate.no https://t.co/LAGQFrztE8 Looks fun & instructive

— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) 13. Januar 2015

"Lean Startup" - Leicht verständlich

Ein sehr guter Foliensatz, der Lean Startup anschaulich anhand von Startups, Unternehmen und Enterprises darstellt: Lean Startup - Auch in erwachsenen Unternehmen?

Technical Design Tradeoffs

Development teams should not think of it as making technical design decisions but managing tradeoffs. There is no optimal decision and the tradeoff does not automatically lead to technical debt.

duplicate/modify vs generalize/specialize is a tough set of tradeoffa

— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) 10. Dezember 2014

Why Deployment Freezes Don't Prevent Outages

Think about this, every time you say "Never touch a running system!":

"Every running system is a ticking timebomb" http://t.co/FcFFyqTIlf Words of peace and joy.

— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) 27. Dezember 2014

The Tyranny of the Ever Decreasing Timebox

A classic reference, a must have read in Agile Development: The Tyranny of the Ever Decreasing Timebox - David J Anderson

ThoughtWorks Technology Radar

ThoughtWorks has started a monthly review on technologies: Platform, Frameworks etc.
The PDF format is perfect! Technology Radar PDF

Latest version of ThoughtWorks technology radar is out today. Themes: devops, data platforms and security tools http://t.co/FJviOIF267

— Martin Fowler (@martinfowler) 17. Dezember 2014

Problem Altsoftware

Der folgende Zitat aus dem Artikel fasst das Problem "Altsoftware" sehr gut zusammen:
"Die unterschiedlichen Web-Apps ermöglichen den Einsatz verschiedener Technologien innerhalb des Java-Universums. Wirklich genutzt wurde dies jedoch nicht. Im Gegenteil: Bewährtes wurde gerne wieder verwendet und übergreifende Konzepte in geteilten Bibliotheken hinterlegt. Eine zunehmend enge Verzahnung war das Ergebnis. Kleine Änderungen wurden aufwändig. Innovationen, wie z. B. eine Java-8-Einführung oder ein Spring-4-Update, erzeugen viel zu hohe Aufwände. Solche Themen dann zeitnah oder „nebenbei“ anzugehen, fällt nahezu aus. Unzufriedenheit über die veraltete Software und ein Verlust an „Spaß bei der Arbeit“ sind die subtilen wie ernstzunehmenden Konsequenzen.

Darüber hinaus traten weitere Symptome monolithischer Anwendungen auf: Eine technisch enge Kopplung von fachlich entkoppelten Themen resultiert in steigenden Lern- und Einarbeitungskurven bei den Entwicklern. Die Konsequenzen einer Änderung abzusehen wurde stetig schwieriger. "

Microservices

Folien zu einen gelungenem Vortrag über Microservices in München: https://speakerdeck.com/timmo/nie-wieder-monolithen-ein-praxisbericht-uber-micro-services

#ThinkingTools: The Mighty difference between #Management and #Leadership - illustrated! #WarrenBennis #beta #stoos pic.twitter.com/JnEmZc6rHm

— Niels Pflaeging (@NielsPflaeging) 9. August 2014

Seen on Twitter

Feeling agile today. pic.twitter.com/BIq6AeBRo8

— Chris Francis.js (@chrisfrancis27) 28. Juni 2013

Spotify Engineering Culture

Here’s a short animated video describing Spotify's engineering culture.
http://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-culture-part-1/

The Lean Mindset

I have visited THE workshop on Lean Mindset and Lean Software Development.
http://synchronit.com:8080/workshopRegistration/

The 7 principles of Lean along with many stories and book references can be found here:
http://www.poppendieck.com/

Thanks to SynchronIT for the great organization and location:
http://synchronit.com/

SOA Manifesto

I have signed the SOA Manifesto. I think it is the right thing to do:

http://www.soa-manifesto.org/

Kanban Values

A new article on Kanban I have seen on the blog of Dr. Arne Roock of the IT-Agile GmbH. Dr. Arne Roock translated the article in german:

"Introducing Kanban through its values"

• Original Version
• German Version

Background information: Dr. Arne Roock is well known for his participation of the german translation of the book "Kanban" by David J. Anderson.

Being Assertive

I thought about calling assertiveness the golden hammer in management, leadership and teamwork but that is pure exageration. If you do not like to work with people at all then forget it. The ability to be assertive should only be applied by people who strife in a team for a common goal.

Assertiveness is a social and communication skill that summarizes everything we want on us and others in our environment. Especially in IT projects. It is a term formed by psychology, communications and anthropology.

Nice article on being assertive: Skills you need
More articles: Assertiveness

After reading several books about agile Processes, Teamwork, Communication, Management and Work, I realized that assertiveness pretty summarizes all you need in one term. Start of Disclaimer - A master of assertiveness should be able to achieve any goal and assertive people are successfull people. - End of Disclaimer.

The problem is the high entry barrier in being assertive. It is comparable to pursue the way of buddha in enlightement. You can pursue it your whole life and still end up as a cow in the middle of nowhere in your next life.

Tools in Software Development

What you should have used inside your processes:

• Continuous Integration -> Jenkins, Bamboo 
• Dependency Management -> Maven, Gradle
• Test Driven Development (TDD) -> Arquilian, Mockito, TestNG
• Documentation -> Maven Sites, Gradle Sites, Confluence
• Build Management -> Maven, Gradle
• Ticket-/Issue/Taskmanagement -> Jira
• Source Code Version Management -> Git, Subversion, Git-Stash
• Code Review ->Crucible