Ziobrando's Lair

I don’t know if it has something to do with the Shu-Ha-Ri theory that Alistair Cockburn uses to describe the three level of experience in t...

Another interesting question that popped out during my “Agile: the B-Plan” presentation at IAD2008 regarded the different cost schema of an ...

One of the most intriguing parts of the discussion, that was part of my speech in IAD2008, was a question (interestingly asked by one of the...

While attending JAOO 2007 I had the chance to talk for a while with Pramod Sadalage, which gave me some interesting hints about pair program...

When designing an application architecture, one of the things to consider is how to deal with lock-in on third party components. The problem...

Agile methodologies, particularly XP, strive to achieve better process efficiency by reducing the amount of the required documentation to a ...

Right after publishing this post , I’ve got the feeling of something missing, that still could be extracted from the IKEA metaphor. Mounting...

Everybody knows that the average developer tends to (largely) underestimate development time, or to run out of the estimated time. A less in...