Na última semana aconteceu em Curitiba, Paraná, uma das maiores conferências sobre métodos ágeis na América Latina, o Agile Brazil 2016. Foi a primeira participação do time de gerentes de projetos da Plataformatec como palestrantes no evento e, neste post, gostaria de compartilhar algumas impressões sobre essa participação e o evento como um todo. Primeiro … »

You may be facing lack of trust among your team members and you have not noticed it yet. Actually, it is very difficult to notice it, since trust is often something unconscious for us. In this post, I will highlight the importance of trust in a team and, then, list a few actions that you … »

Motivation One of the most common challenges that you will face in your career, or even in your life, is to choose one thing over another. It could be a decision between going out to eat at a sushi place and a pizzeria, or it could be between a 2-month-long software project that costs $1M … »

As you might have noticed, we have been testing new methodologies on our projects in order to improve them and be more agile. We started using Monte Carlo Simulation (Forecasting software project’s completion date through Monte Carlo Simulation), limiting the WIP of our process (Case Study of a WIP Limit Implementation: Why, When and How … »

In this blog post, I’ll explain the problem of developers spending too much time trying to discover a problem in a failing test suite. A cause of this issue may be the lack of a good test feedback. A good feedback is one that happens fast with a helpful message. To illustrate this problem, consider … »

Last week happened the biggest Ruby-related conference in Latin America, RubyConf Brazil. Our team was present in this edition, which by the way, was particularly interesting, therefore I’d like to share some highlights. The first highlight comes from the night before the event. We went to a bar with some conference speakers. It was really … »