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14 lessons for helping people make good software

I’ve spent the last year as a software engineering manager for teams building a new product. Our tribe (the group of teams) was part of a…

Sep 4, 2019

Sep 4, 2019

Emile Silvis

Why ‘courage’ is a Scrum value and ‘being right’ is not

I often see situations like this in software teams:

Sep 17, 2018

Why ‘courage’ is a Scrum value and ‘being right’ is not

Sep 17, 2018

Emile Silvis

A thought experiment: let’s add a new role to scrum — the craft master

I recently read an article about how scrum disempowers developers due to its focus on value rather than technical excellence. This is…

Jun 6, 2018

A thought experiment: let’s add a new role to scrum — the craft master

Jun 6, 2018

Emile Silvis

Definitions of Done should be a co-star — not a supporting actor

Something I realised recently (which I knew in theory but ignored in practice) is that reminding teams that they are the ones responsible…

May 17, 2018

May 17, 2018

Emile Silvis

I did a workshop on systems thinking

In April, Roland and I presented a workshop on systems thinking at the MiXiT conference in Lyon. Check out the presentation and case study…

May 16, 2018

I did a workshop on systems thinking

May 16, 2018

Emile Silvis

A curated list of systems thinking resources

Books

Apr 3, 2018

Apr 3, 2018

Emile Silvis

What I have learned from running a small software consultancy

Me and two friends started Glio in September 2012. By day Glio was a consultancy, offering website development (mainly with WordPress on…

Oct 30, 2016

Oct 30, 2016

Emile Silvis

Fix your budget, not your scope

Many software projects take on the form of a transaction between vendor and customer. A transaction is an exchange of value. The vendor…

Oct 3, 2016

Oct 3, 2016

Emile Silvis

Growth comes from real failure

There is a certain narrative that is prevalent in contemporary startup cultures. Its story goes something along the lines of “failure is…

Sep 30, 2016

Sep 30, 2016

Emile Silvis

A quick review of Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby

I’ve recently learned a lot about Ruby, and I’m also quite interested in R, a programming language for statistical computing. The book…

Aug 30, 2016

Aug 30, 2016

Emile Silvis

Emile Silvis

I help awesome people create the banking platform of the future at http://www.backbase.com . Views here are my own.

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