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Time Travel Retrospective

You find a time travel machine and decide to go back 2 weeks ago and repeat the sprint. Explore your progress during the last sprint and choose what you’ll repeat or change in this second try.

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A recipe for successful reading groups in IT

Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
- Dalai Lama

Socrates, Pythagoras, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Benjamin Franklin, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce and F. Scott Fitzgerald are only a few big names that used to create and join reading clubs to present their beliefs, philosophies or literature. Their stories definitely worth our time and here you can find some of them.

Having a community where you can share your ideas, findings, or wisdom is fruitful for both yourself and the community itself. In this post I will write about how we can extend the idea of a book club and successfully apply it in the ITC domain, and I will try to define a recipe for this.

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Challenges when doing remote pair programming and how to overcome them

Known not only as one of the 12 practices of eXtreme programming, but also as one of the DevOps practices, pair programming is a technique that becomes more and more popular every day.

Doing pair programming doesn’t sound difficult, but this doesn’t mean there are no challenges to face in order to feel its benefits. There are challenges, especially if we try to apply this practice remotely when working in distributed teams.

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How to create a blog using GitHub Pages and Jekyll in 1 day

What should my first post be about if not about the genesis of this blog?

GitHub Pages and Jekyll were the choice to form the foundation of this website, but there were a lot of bits and pieces that polished it.

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