Practices Wall (make it explicit)

Posted by andrefaria on Apr 27, 2013 in Agile, Management, Special | 2 comments

“We are what we frequently do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit”. Aristotle The Greek...

Dan Pink Message to Stoos Connect

Posted by andrefaria on Feb 5, 2013 in Management, Special | 0 comments

Last month I’ve been to the Stoos Connect (live transmission at the São Paulo Satellite). Stoos is...

Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell by Henrik Kniberg

Posted by andrefaria on Nov 11, 2012 in Agile, Special | 0 comments

This is basically a 1 day product ownership course compressed into 15 minute animated presentation....

Business Model Generation with Alexander Osterwalder

Posted by andrefaria on Nov 11, 2012 in Business | 0 comments

Business model innovator Alexander Osterwalder author of Business Model Generation: A Handbook for...

Go Givers: My Notes about the Book

Posted by andrefaria on Aug 26, 2012 in Agile | 1 comment

The Go-Giver is about Joe, a sales consultant who is trying to reach his quota. Joe meets Pindar, a...

It’s not about you: Book Review

Posted by andrefaria on Aug 21, 2012 in Philosophy | 0 comments

I  really enjoy parables that holds interesting messages! In the story of the Book “It’s not...

We Have No Limits

Posted by andrefaria on Aug 6, 2012 in Philosophy, Special | 0 comments

Unfulfilled lifestyles controlled by pressure and not passion are now the norm. When you live unbound you...

Who Needs Philosophy?

Posted by andrefaria on May 3, 2012 in Philosophy | 0 comments

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Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work

Posted by andrefaria on May 2, 2012 in Agile | 0 comments

Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn’t a good place to do it. At...

DeveloperTalkTV – CCC – Card, Conversation and Confirmation

Posted by andrefaria on Oct 20, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Int this episode, @andrefaria talks about the CCC (Card, Conversation, Confirmation). Created by Ron Jeffries is a technique very useful to be used on planning.

DeveloperTalkTV – Practices Wall

Posted by andrefaria on Oct 19, 2011 in Agile | 0 comments

In this episode @andrefaria talks about the practices wall, an area in the card wall where the team puts all the practices that they do in order to inspect and reflect about it in a regular basis.

DeveloperTalkTV – Optimistic and Pessimistic Locking

Posted by andrefaria on Sep 23, 2011 in Agile | 0 comments

In this first episode André Faria talks about Optimistic and Pessimistic Locking approaches to solve concurrency problems in software development.

DeveloperTalkTV – Retrospective Meetings

Posted by andrefaria on Sep 23, 2011 in Agile | 0 comments

In this second episode @andrefaria talks about retrospective meetings and how it can help teams to be continuously improving their work.

Agile Podcast #6 – Six Hats Retrospectives

Posted by andrefaria on Aug 15, 2010 in Agile | 0 comments

This is transcript of the podcast. Download it here. Agile Retrospectives are very important to the growth of...

Agile Podcast #5 – Coding Dojos

Posted by andrefaria on Jul 26, 2010 in Agile | 0 comments

This is transcript of the podcast, download it here. Hello and welcome to the fifth episode of the Agile...

Agile Podcast #4 – Pair Programming

Posted by andrefaria on Jul 18, 2010 in Agile | 0 comments

This is the transcript of the podcast, download it here. Hello and welcome to the forth episode of the Agile...

Agile Podcast #3 – Time for Learning

Posted by andrefaria on Jul 11, 2010 in Agile | 0 comments

This is transcript of the podcast. Download it here. Hello and welcome to the third episode of the Agile...

Agile Podcast #2 – Manoel Pimentel on Coaching

Posted by andrefaria on Jul 5, 2010 in Agile | 0 comments

This is the transcript of the podcast. Download it here. On the last episode I talked a little bit about...

Agile Podcast #1 – Martin Fowler at the Agile Brazil 2010 Conference

Posted by andrefaria on Jul 1, 2010 in Agile | 0 comments

Last week we had the Agile Brazil Conference, which gathered more than eight hundred people from different...