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Five Questions To Know If You Are Doing Agile Right
Author: Martin Novak, Publisher: Product Coalition
Is your team dependent on other teams to ship?
Agile teams are expected to be cross-functional and self-sufficient.
Shipping is about its whole process of iterative design, development, testing, and deployment based on a shared goal. If a team is able to do only one piece (for example only development), it won’t be able to ship...
3 sins of implementing Agile
Author: Martin Novak, Publisher: Product Coalition
I want to share the most common and most significant issues with Agile implementation that I have seen in practice. What Agile is, has been initially described in the Agile Manifesto and further under 12 Agile Principles. I recommend reading both. I have seen Sprint commitments used as the ultimate defence of why a team should not be forced to change anything at all during the period of a Sprint.
3 sins of implementing Scrum
Author: Martin Novak, Publisher: Product Coalition
As a follow-up on my article 3 sins of implementing Agile, I am bringing this idea to Scrum, the most common manifestation of Agile. These are some of the most impactful issues that I have seen.
Natural Language Processing in the Browser
Author: Martin Novak, Publisher: BetterProgramming
It is possible to build a chatbot for your own website without dependency on a third-party service like Dialogflow or Watson, and without a server. I will show you how to build a chatbot that will completely run in the browser.
Writing Redux-like simple middleware
Author: Martin Novak, Publisher: Frontend Weekly
React 16.8 came with the addition of React Hooks. I was curious about how far it goes to allow you to replace Redux and create a middleware like Redux Thunk, Observable or Saga.
