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The quality of your life depends on the quality of your mind.

In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman developed a model (Tuckman’s Model) that describes the stages of group development, forming and maturing into a cohesive and effective team.

The Alchemist is a classic novel in which a boy named Santiago embarks on a journey seeking treasure in the Egyptian pyramids after having a recurring dream about it.

When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation badly and suffer the consequences; or read Crucial Conversations and discover how to co…

This is a question that I have encountered with some frequency for a long time.

An unhealthy working environment can have various symptoms that negatively impact employees’ physical and mental well-being.

A person who is competent at their job will get promoted to a position that requires other skills.

“It’s Your Ship” is a leadership book written by D.

This book is fantastic and frightening but entirely plausible.

I was invited to the WeAreDevelopers World Congress to give a tech talk about my experience with XP and the profound benefits of embracing change in your work and life.

Have you, like the rest of the world, speculated as to the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, anonymous creator of Bitcoin?

It is hard sometimes to get to bed with the mind blank because, more often than not, I think about my next reading, learning, talk, or what I will write this or next month.

Guy Montag is a fireman.

This book covers Bitcoin’s blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017.

Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control.

A basic and straightforward overview of what Agile is, presenting some framework examples that are well known today, such as Scrum or Kanban, everything condensed in a 100’s pages book that you can read in a couple of hours.

This will be controversial, but let’s talk about the QA position.

An effective remote work environment is about treating everyone as remote, with everyone in mind having the same level, equality, and information.

To introduce a new tech stack for the entire team, it’s important to bring “why?”

Accelerate explores how software development teams using Lean Software and DevOps can measure their performance and the performance of software engineering teams impacts the overall performance of an organization.

I’ve got this question recently, a couple of times, and this is a great topic to share.

Gigi portrays Bitcoin as more than just money; it’s a deep dive into economics, philosophy, and culture.

As business scales, the leaders’ primary focus must shift from customers to employees.

Told through the story of one bold company (People First IT), Adapt or Die takes readers through the unparalleled business system known as The Algorithm of Success that has the potential to inspire, ignite, and affect change for all aspects of an organiza…

How do we win a game that has no end?

My interview with devm.io regarding Agile and Extreme Programming. devm.io: We talked to Chema, a software developer and an Extreme Programming expert, about his favourite topic and his upcoming live event Update Your Team To Be More Extreme.

Momo is a fairytale that shows the fight between good and evil in our contemporary society, focusing on the lack of time to care for other people.

Talking to a friend about agile, he asked me a fascinating question remarking how badly sometimes Agile and Scrum fit together, especially regarding meetings.

What is coupling, and why is it bad?

Let’s assume you already know what the agile manifesto is.

A twenty-six selections on management in the organization, management and the individual, and management and society.

I recently got a great question on Twitter which got me thinking for a while and I decided to share my thoughts about it.

Leadership is not about titles, status, and power over people.

Leadership is not a synonym for management, it has nothing to do with titles or personal attributes.

One of the most complicated challenges for everyone is avoiding misunderstandings and being aware that other people don’t think the same way as you do.

This book explores how product managers and designers can keep making a positive impact on their customers’ lives.

Matt Mochary coaches the CEOs of many of the fastest-scaling technology companies in Silicon Valley.

A triangle of time, quality and cost.

If you cut off a spider’s head, it dies; if you cut off a starfish’s leg it grows a new one, and that leg can grow into an entirely new starfish.

The book is divided into three parts: the disciplines, the standards, and the ethics.

This book presents software development as an engineering practice at every level.

We all have been junior developers at some point.

The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson’s Law of triviality.

This book was published in 2017, so most of the technology shown is already history.

A great book about Docker, from introduction to advanced concepts all covered by easy-to-follow examples.

A cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships, in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.

Team Topologies focuses on how to set up dynamic team structures and interaction modes that can help teams adapt quickly to new conditions, and achieve fast and safe software delivery.

Having more money will make you happier ONLY if that means you’ll have more control over your time.

Our software profession is constantly evolving; it demands a non-stop learning process.

Milgram was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person, and how easily people could be influenced into committing atrocities.