The slides include architecture aspects, technical aspects, as well as negotiation and functional hints. It’s not meant to be an absolute best-practices architecture guide, it’s only the result of this very specific project.

You can check/download the deck here.

Special thanks to NetPonto for the invitation, and to the audience for the participation and great feeedback in this LONG session :).

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This next Saturday I’ll be presenting on the topic of Software Estimation. Here at |create|it| we have always had a very strong focus and investment on the quality of our estimation and project management, and we use several techniques from authors such as Steve McConnell and Mike Cohn. The presentation builds on some choice approaches we selected mainly from these authors in the last 10 years, and in addition to describing them, I’ll be talking on how we use them, hoping to give attendants some field tips from our experience

Hope to see you there.

PS: Next June 21’s the portuguese Scrum Community will hold an avent to commemorate the member number 1000. Lear more about is here, the agenda looks pretty interesting!

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While developing the contents for the presentation, however, I felt that architecture and technology were no longer on the top of the relevant issues list on the project – the main obstacles were solved in the first few sprints.

I once read this saying «When you solve your largest problem, your second largest problem becomes your largest problem», and this made me center the presentation about what I felt was the most relevant and important challenge for the success of the project – team dynamics.

I later decided to expand these contents to include other projects I was involved with in the past and which I feel made me learn valuable lessons in how to manage a team to achieve the highest motivation an productivity, and this resulted in the presentation I’m going to deliver at Netponto in Lisboa next Saturday.

I am nor an expert on team dynamics nor a psychologist, so this will be a very practical session where my goal is to share my experience and – to put it in technical terms – some [behavioral/organizational] patterns which might perhaps help you on your next projects.

Come and share your experience :).

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