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IT market and Netflix effect

The IT market is currently wild and bad. People searching for a place to work in for YEARS, companies that make rounds of redundancies almost for fun, open positions that stay open forever. And ghosting at every level. In this… Continue Reading →

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Machine Learning – Part I

The idea of Machine Learning is to solve problems by gathering a dataset that describe the problem and algorithmically build a statistical model based on that dataset. The learning can be: The work of data analyst is to decide how… Continue Reading →

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No, testing is NOT optional

I have been in some weird conversation in which the agenda was to speak about HOW to do some backend tests and it was driven into IF we need any backend tests. This is quite embarassing, because it is an… Continue Reading →

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When agile is a buzz word

I am close to get a huge achievement in my new role, after 4 months that I joined this company (4 months including Christmas): we will deploy a new fraud system made by me and a team of 2. This… Continue Reading →

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Devoxx UK 2023 – Day 1 – Part 1

The conference started with a guest performance, Reeps One, a beatboxer that apparently worked with AI to try to visualise voice and music. He did a documentary called “We speak music“, nice introduction. But the first tech keynote was “Developer… Continue Reading →

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The logic of estimates

While most of the team members care about estimate just as part of a routine of the Scrum methodology, estimating tasks is quite important for those members of the team, or even of the company, that deal with senior management… Continue Reading →

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Reality about technical leadership

In the previous post about “Theory about technical leadership” I just gave an overview of what I listened in a couple of courses on LinkedIn. I guess most of those opinions are correct, in the ideal World. I say that… Continue Reading →

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Why you need a Squad Health Check and you didn’t know

Have you ever heard about the Scaling Agile @ Spotify (or the so called “the Spotify model” or “the Spotify process“)? Well, I am not a big fan of it, but some principles, adapted to the different companies structures, have… Continue Reading →

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Theory about technical leadership

The best way to improve the quality of our work is to learn and keep up to date on new theories. And that is not all: even revising our knowledge is a good practice. I worked in agile teams for… Continue Reading →

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