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17-05-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


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Delivering a node.js training

11-24-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


On a short notice a big training company had approached me - A trainer of them had dropped out of a planned training and they needed someone to deliver a introduction to the node platform in the context of web development for one of the bigger agencies here in hamburg.

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Reasons to build a pairing station

11-19-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Having a dedicated computer and desk for the effort of Pair programming is a great thing. It is a little counter intuitive to those who seek for efficient use of the workplace and try to use every inch of the office all the time. Creative people (programmers) are no laying hens and should not be treated this way. So why is it good to have a computer around that is just dedicated for Pair programming?

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Code reviews and Pair programming

11-14-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Do do we still need Codereviews when we do Pairprogramming?

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Commercial thinking and action

11-11-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


This blogpost begins with a little story. I once (think years not months) worked as a coach for company and we sat in one of the meetings held in regular intervals with the Management to discuss impediments to the process and in general product development. Suddenly in a little more heated part of the discussion, one of the managers said:

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Book raffle - #whywepair

11-10-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


I want to know a little bit more about the reasoning behind Pairprogramming usage in development teams.

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Node.js training incoming

11-03-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Out of the blue I did something I wanted to do for a very long time - creating a 2 day training for node.js.

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Weekly recap - Week #43

11-02-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


This was a week full of preparations.

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Weekly recap - Week #43

11-02-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Oh my #gwad. What a week.

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Survive your front-end

10-29-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


I am building a talk on how to approach big/long running front end projects that will be initially presented at the Berlin PHP User-groupon Tuesday. I started to prepare it and want to nail down my thoughts.

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The BDD project - Second steps

10-22-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


More progress (Version 0.0.1) is made and we are a little further down the road towards a first deploy.

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The BDD project - My first results

10-22-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Starting of on sundaywith a little impact mappingI tried to outline the first basic ideas using this technique. It turns it takes some rewrites and a little back and forth untilyou hit the spot.

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Weekly recap - Week #42

10-17-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Pew, this week was a full on workshop and conference week. Prparing for workshops and visiting XP days.

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Yo dawg, I heard you like XP Practices and BDD

10-17-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


I need to get a website for the upcoming XP Practices training together that shows basic practices and allows participants to prepare for the workshop. There is a little prototype already, but the final product needs to be included in this site.

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4 ways to practice Nonviolent Communication on your job

10-15-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


I get asked a lot about practical applications of Nonviolent Communication and this post covers 4 applications of NVC that you can use in your daily work.

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Weekly recap - Week #41

10-10-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Wow. What a week.

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Speaking about Pairprogramming at the Hamburg PHP Usergroup

10-09-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


I will be speaking at the Hamburg PHP Usergroup on 14th of Octoberabout Pairprogramming: To pair or not to pair: That is not a question

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Talk at Berlin PHP Usergroup: Surviving your frontend

10-09-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


I will be speaking on the 4th of November at the Berlin PHP Usergroup about Surviving your frontend.

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Dissident Trainings – Preamble

10-09-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


There is some theoretical reasoning behind the “Dissident Trainings” Project. Here is a text that I wrote back in 2013.

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BDD Podcasts and Videos

10-08-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


I had to do some research for my workshop on BDD workshop and ended up with a big number of videos and podcasts. I thought I’d share that with you here.

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Ideas on Pairprogramming

10-06-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Over the last years, I got many good Ideas from teams on how to use pairing in their daily work. It is very interesting how the initial idea is “hacked”, changed and adapted. Some traditional and not so traditional approaches here in a blog post.

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Weekly recap - Week #40

10-04-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


This week was a wild mix of code and topics from the “agile world”

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Pair Programming workshops as product

10-01-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Its been more then two years that Soehnke Rumpler and I had been on the phone and talking about the contents of a workshop for the XP practice of pair programming. Ever since then, I have been approached by companies and individuals who wanted to get more information on this workshop.

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Why the N tips for XP practices post series?

09-29-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Some weeks ago, I startet out to write a series of blog-posts on XP practices in the format of “N tips for your XP practice” and I want to give a little more insight whats behind the idea.

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A little action might not hurt - #heforshe

09-27-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


TL;TR: Any gender diverse group gets a 25% price reduction for coachings and trainings becuase diverse groups yield better results and make my job easier

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Weekly recap Week #39

09-26-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Oh what a sick week. In its true sense. I had my first real sick leave as a selfemployed person. Sucks. But a lot of time to read the interwebsz empty and get this blog project moved.

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Weekly recap Week #38

09-19-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


This week was more about building my own things aka website.

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10 tips for the XP Practice "Sit Together"

09-17-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


James Shore describes “Sit together” in his book as

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Weekly recap - Week #37

09-11-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


This week was code, code and code.

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8 tips for the use of coding conventions

09-11-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Coding conventions sound so easy, but get hard over the course of a longer project and with bigger team size. With a little feedback and forth with Johann Peter Hartmann, the following principles for a coding standard were up for discussion.

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Weekly recap - Week #36

09-05-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


This week was full of interesting stuff

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Weekly recap - Week #35

08-29-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Following the practiceof Martin Wolf, I am now posting a recap of things I do over the course of a week. So you can see not only what is on my mind, but what I am actually doing

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Ideas for modern coding

08-20-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


If starting a new web project follow some basic principles

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About a Bridge Thread

08-19-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Reading the C2 wiki, in the context of extreme programming, a bridge thread is

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So that the crazy ones don't forget

05-28-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


 
 

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The hen and egg problem

04-10-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


Imagine, you do a project with a UX guy. He is building the UI and expects an api while doing so.

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Social Human Architecture for Beginners - The Booklist

01-26-2014 by Sebastian Schürmann


While giving the Talk about “all those soft skills”, I referred to a lot of Books and Papers that someone could read. I will list all of them now

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Miško Hevery about Pair-Programming

12-09-2013 by Sebastian Schürmann


Miško Hevery about Pair-Programming

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Over my dead body!

11-21-2013 by Sebastian Schürmann


Ever since I started with XP and especially Testing, there is a pattern evolving that works like this

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Scrum lego City Relative Weight Workshop

11-16-2013 by Sebastian Schürmann


A Relative Weight Backlogis one of the key artifacts in scrum. I always had a hard time to explain it to people. Since we are doing regular workshops in our company we had an excellent opportunity to let our product owners experience building a relative weight backlog in a safe environment. The whole exercise is based on the User Stories from Agile 42‘s Scrum Lego City game.

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So you are Post-Scrum?

11-07-2013 by Sebastian Schürmann


I hear a lot of teams are “POST-SCRUM”. That is not a bad thing, given one of the basic mechanics is “Inspect and Adapt”. This is constantly changing the process and it’s properties from sprint to sprint. So, basically you go “POST-SCRUM” after Sprint One (most times it’s the third in practice).

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Bootstrap your Express Project - A agile toolbox

09-27-2012 by Sebastian Schürmann


When starting with a new node/express project there is a variety of tools available that help your development effort. I have started a new project and want to write down my recommendations for the tools to use.

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The seven Lamps of (Software)Architecture

03-14-2012 by Sebastian Schürmann


I am still reading “ The Craftsman” by Richard Sennet, a book that was given to me by a very smart Product-Designer/UX-Guy/Carpenter because we talked a lot about the merits on the crafty part of software-development and web-architecture. Amazon describes it as:

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