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How to organize a study plan
The IT professional needs to be always up to date and constantly evolving. Technologies and new methods for accomplishing tasks emerge all the time, so you have to study a lot! There are several bases and tools that a professional should study. How to put together an efficient study plan focused on what you want…
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Thoughts on Agility for 2023
Between the middle and end of 2022, I attended two relevant events that brought news and trends about agile development and the future of organizations. In Nashville, US, Agile 2022 mainly addressed topics such as empathy and organizational culture. Agile Brazil 2022 followed the same line and prioritized points such as organization, culture, and management.…
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How AI is Combining Language and Creativity to Write Software
It has become evident that artificial intelligence has advanced to a level where it can not only write code, but also engage in conversation and generate creative works. Examples of this include ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Midjourney. In my view, the ability to write code effectively for humans relies on both language and creative skills. It is…
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We must chase our crazy ideas
So you’re choosing to leave and be unemployed? My boss asked, almost two decades ago. I was not exactly sure how things would turn out, but I wanted to start my own business and reached a point where it would be pivotal to my professional life: I had to try it. As soon as I…
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Thoughts on risk-taking
Have you ever felt the need to stand out? Either personally or professionally? Both? I like to think it’s all about risk-taking. When we look into successful people and their businesses, there’s a commonality: they all do something no one else does. It seems easy to analyze things from the outside, maybe even evident if…
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The Importance of Passion
Over the years I’ve seen many software development projects that follow a typical pattern of failure. They fail because they lack passion, they are executed purely as a transaction. As usual it starts with a set of requirements, a deadline and a budget. Then stakeholders and sales sign off on that promise. When the development team…
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The secret of a sense of progress
It’s curious that humans need to have a sense of progress actually to perceive progress in things. I say this because I noticed something during a sequence of 2 sprints in one of the projects we are working on here at ZBRA. For more context, see here how the Sprint Burnup of the first sprint…