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Articles by Lukasz Szyrmer (Articles: 2, Technical Blogs: 10)
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Make Lasagna Not Spaghetti Code: A Real World Approach to The Legacy Problem
14 Apr 2013 Updated:
23 Apr 2013
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A pragmatic approach to automated testing with legacy code.
DevOps
Unit Testing
Step 1. Start TDD, Step 2. ???, Step 3. $Profit$
5 Jun 2013 Updated:
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Use cost of market delay and your learning costs to figure out whether TDD, or its alternatives, makes sense for you
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How to Simplify a Complicated Process, So That Even a 2.5 Year Old Would Understand Them [Technical Blog]
24 Feb 2020 Updated:
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A real life example to show how to use visualization to effectively simplify a complicated process
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Why Addressing Errors Effectively Lies at the Heart of Team Performance [Technical Blog]
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Why it is important to address errors effectively for better team performance
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The Kindergarten, the Construction site, and the Assembly Line [Technical Blog]
26 Feb 2020 Updated:
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Experimenting with output using three different alternative ways of working
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How to Resource Projects and Products--Optimizing for Elapsed Time, Motivated Teams, and Budget [Technical Blog]
27 Feb 2020 Updated:
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Given increasingly shorter time frames for product life cycles, time is an increasingly undervalued resource.
How to Choose a Useful Measure of Incremental Progress for Your Team [Technical Blog]
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How to get a better sense of how team members are doing, both as a functional unit and individually
The 2020 Guide to Planning New Products using Story Points [Technical Blog]
7 Oct 2022 Updated:
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How to use story points to plan new products
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Why "Work Time" Reduction is Futile [Technical Blog]
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This is a look at Continuous Delivery.
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Why New Tech Products Usually Stumble, and How to Prevent It at Your Company [Technical Blog]
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This post discusses reasons why new tech products stumble and suggests some ways in which that can be prevented.
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Why Estimating Cognitive Effort Simplifies Knowledge Work [Technical Blog]
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Story points defined, disclaimers and example provided
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How to Analyze the Impact of Velocity on Your Release Date [Technical Blog]
24 Feb 2020 Updated:
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Figuring out your velocity and how to increase it has much greater business value (bringing release dates in) rather than trying to specify and estimate everything up front to the utmost detail.
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Lukasz Szyrmer
Product Manager
Poland
Lukasz Szyrmer used to develop in C++ and C# and now manages development teams as a technical product manager. He writes about agile, lasagna, and the cost of delay. If you are hungry for more, check out
Debugging Velocity
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