We have recently been recruiting a couple of new programmers at Neurobat. This time we submitted the candidates to an online programming test, which consists of a couple of (relatively) simple programming assignments to be completed in a given time. Out of about 100 applications, 34 were given this test. I have collected the data […]
I just finished reading Jules Verne’s Around The World In 80 Days, which I had never read before. It’s a great read and I highly recommend it to children and adults alike. But half-way through the book I realized there’s more to this book than a nice tale of adventure. This book is a complete […]
The first thing we did this week was to hold a sprint retrospective. And one of the first things we decided was that I should step down as ScrumMaster. Which I gladly did. In recent months I had been travelling more and more, attending more and more meetings, and it had become clear that there […]
Very often I hear scrum standup meetings go something like this: Fred: “yesterday I used Git bisect to find out where and when bug #1234 was first introduced. That didn’t work so I created a new unit test to reproduce it and asked Alice what the naming convention for unit tests was and…“ Stop. Do […]