Blog Posts by Julio Gónzalez

Agile development teams seem to appreciate the value of having standup meetings. They are easily adopted by teams.

Unfortunately, I can’t say the same thing about retrospectives.

Late deliveries are a nightmare—especially if you are ”the face” of the team and you have to explain the reasons for it to either your customer or end users. In this post I intend to list three reasons why your project might be late and some suggestions to a) fix it and b) avoid the same problems in the future.

It takes a while to learn to really communicate well.  In the meantime small mistakes can lead you to big problems. Here are six-plus basic tips and tricks that we have learned the hard way and that could help you.

The Idea One normal and sunny day at work, I saw Roberto approaching my desk and the first thing that came to my mind was, “OMG, what crazy thing am I gonna listen to now?” Roberto: Do you remember what we’ve talked about people’s objectives? I think that OKRs might work for us just as […]

Your last software project didn’t go so well. You are about to start your next one and you are not sure of what to do differently. You’re sure this time things will work out better. Unless, that is, you screw it up from the very start.

Estimates are the bane of software development. They are rarely 100% correct, but you can make better estimates if you follow these steps.

Way back when, when we were learning Agile as a company, we sometimes hesitated to present it as such to our clients. We weren’t sure how clients would take it. We took what might call it a “stealth Agile” approach. Over time we got more confident with it and could point to successes as well as a few failures. But we learned from both. From that experience we extracted a few rules of thumb that are good to remember. In this post, I want to share those rules of thumb with you.

Keeping aligned is really important to Agile teams and, according to the Scrum methodology, daily standup meetings are the tool of choice for that. When done effectively, they provide visibility and transparency to all stakeholders. Just as importantly, they help the team catch problems early.

Late deliveries are a nightmare—especially if you are ”the face” of the team and you have to explain the reasons for it to either your customer or end users.  In this post I intend to list three reasons why your project might be late and some suggestions to a) fix it and b) avoid the […]