Let’s start by asking how your product backlog is managed. How do items get on the backlog, and how do items get picked up from that backlog for development? Who does the former and who does the latter? In (software) product development, there usually are people with two important roles that divide these tasks between them. [...]
Pieter Hens
Time for our second monthly design review! Last time, Gert guided you through his design for the POI Service application for our client Lineas. This time we’ll look at something completely different: the design of a case study for the Museum pass project for our client publiq. First things first, what is a case study? Put simply, a case [...]
Ibn Renders
Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman, a well-known psychologist, wrote a book titled Thinking, Fast and Slow about behavioral economics. He discovered that the economy is not based on abstract mathematical and rational decisions, but rather on irrational decisions. In fact, he translates that into two systems in our brain. System 1 is the [...]
Pieter VD
Suppose you’re a Product Owner in an Agile delivery team, ready to get working on your product. In order to do that, you’ll need to give your development team a goal and a list of things to work on. If you use SCRUM as the framework, you’d call that list of things to work on a Product Backlog. From the SCRUM guide: The [...]
Jonas Van Poucke
We’ve said it a few times before: there are a ton of advantages to freelancing, such as choosing your own office hours, being your own boss, free choice of projects and clients, … Reasons enough to start your freelance career! But how do you actually do that? Here are the 5 steps to getting started as a freelancer. 1. Know why you want [...]
Stijn Schutyser
As promised in the blog post discussing our blog survey’s results and starting today, we’re doing a monthly showcase of a project which our designers are currently working on. Each month, a different team member gives a detailed explanation on their process, decision making or some insightful tips in order to share knowledge. Today, Gert [...]
Gert Bangels
Hi everyone, First and foremost: a huge thank you to everyone who filled out the survey! We’ve had some very interesting responses as well as some compliments, which is always nice. 😉 Transparancy is one of the core Agile principles we like to put in practice, and it’s no different when it comes to our blog. Therefore, [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Hi! Thanks for checking out the ACA blog website and this blog post in particular. Let me cut right to the chase: we need your help. We’ve been blogging for quite a while now. Our very first post dates back to March 2013! In the last year, we’ve tried to be more consistent in posting blog posts and post one every week. [...]
Stijn Schutyser
This blog post is the final part of a 3 part series about SSH (Secure Shell) connections with OpenSSH. In this last part of the series, I’ll talk about jump/bastion hosts, using ‘screen’ and transferring files. You can check out the first post here and the second part here. The aim of this blog post series is to teach you [...]
Jan Beerden
This blog post is the second of a 3 part series about SSH (Secure Shell) connections with OpenSSH. You can check out the first post here. The aim of this blog post series is to teach you more about SSH, so I call it SSH Summer School (even though, yes, it’s autumn now 🙂 ). In these blog posts, I assume you are using a UNIX-like [...]
Jan Beerden
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