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A metaphor to ease our communication?

Fevereiro 18, 2024

One of the great contributions of eXtreme Programming to the Agile world, IMHO, is the metaphor discipline. When we are building software, we are not just coding APIs, calling URLs with a defined payload and waiting for a resulting JSON document or a set of errors.

Well, if you are a task based developer you may just be doing that… I understand that.

But… for real, we are solving a business problem, even if we decide to solve the problem building something generic. So we should learn more about the business.

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Would I dance with myself?

Fevereiro 13, 2024

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Are you ok about being lonely?
From time to time I catch myself thinking about this.

Would you dance with yourself?

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Do you believe in ghosts?

Fevereiro 12, 2024

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Actually the important thing is if the ghosts believe in themselves.
That’s Ted Lasso’s motivation I know, but I have some motivation for you too.

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Criticism is something impossible to avoid. Trust me.

Fevereiro 11, 2024

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If it’s your mission, if it’s something you feel the need to do… who are these people that tell you not to do?

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There’s no try, but there is a not yet.

Fevereiro 10, 2024

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Do you remember Yoda?

Do or do not. There’s no try.
Yoda

I totally agree on that… but if I fail or miss something while doing it… I see myself in a “not yet” mode. Let me expand this.

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Creativity and Realism = Reactivity?

Fevereiro 9, 2024

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Let’s look at the definition of reactivity, according to wikipedia: “…the chemical reactions of two or more substances that interact with each other…“. And of course, I’m using a definition that can help me talk about creativity and realism as two types of substances that can create a reaction?

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