One of the big challenges faced by distributed teams is how to get over the communication gap created by the physical distances that separates them. We all know that communication, either verbal or non-verbal, is fundamental for any project to be delivered successfully. When a team is good at communicating, they cultivate a more effective [...]

Last week I attended the Lean Thinking And Practices For IT Leaders workshop organised by ThoughtWorks. There we had the presence of Mary and Tom Poppendieck, my colleague Jason Yip and two consultants from KM&T. One of the things that I really liked about it was that it wasn’t only driven by presentations, but also [...]

Latest Martin Fowler‘s post about HumaneRegistry mentions the first project I was involved working for ThoughtWorks. It was a SOA-Governance consulting with some development effort, and also some effort on harvesting information about services provided by different applications inside the organization, compiling and placing them on the wiki. The idea was to get both service [...]

One of the most difficult tasks for consultants is to influence business people to embrace and support test-driven development. Seems like they do “understand” the values, “agree” with that, but when it comes to put into practice the figure is generally a bit different. When I say to put into practice, I mean stick with [...]