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Productivity Tools on Mac OS X

Blog on May 9th, 2011 No Comments

These are some notes from a brownbag session I ran on Wednesday April 13th at our office. The purpose of it was to share with the rest of the team, the tools that I use on a daily basis on my laptop (MacBook Pro) and that I find useful and have made more productive. Just [...]

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Organisational Maturity and Coaching Models

Blog on March 12th, 2010 1 Comment

The past year I have had the chance of coaching great teams around the world, helping them become Agile and produce better products, have more fun while doing it and help them rediscover their passion for software development. I’ve come across a few interesting situations which made me reflect a bit about the correlation between [...]

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User-Centered Design?

Blog on January 27th, 2010 No Comments

My colleague Mauricio and I were confronted with a very practical problem yesterday that left us thinking quite a bit about user-centered design. We are in Barcelona working at a client site and on the way back to our company apartment, we got a bit distracted talking about software and, as we walked down the [...]

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User Stories as a “Glue Language”

Blog on January 12th, 2010 No Comments

While working with one of our clients over the past few months, we had a large “us and them” divide between their business and technical staff. We quickly realised that we needed a common language that would build a bridge between the two groups. Of course, being a BDD adept, I thought that User Stories [...]

New Technologies At the Service of Civil Society

Blog on March 21st, 2009 No Comments

Pollenizer’s focus is on building web businesses, you can see that through the focus of our site, our blog posts and our experiences. However, something you might not know, is that many of us are also quite interested in the impact that technology has on civil society (NGO’s, not-for-profit). Today, I had the privilege of [...]

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Visual communication in agile projects

Blog on February 18th, 2009 No Comments

Earlier today, I received this picture (click on the thumbnail since it’s quite large and needs to be seen in its full splendor) from Xavier, a friend that’s a practicing Agile Coach and PM in Belgium. Xavier has just started a fantastic blog on visual management for agile teams, you should definitely check the first [...]

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