Think back to the last retrospective meeting you attended. Were people repeating the same things over and over again? Did you get the feeling you weren’t discussing the most important topics? Did you come out of your retro with more grudges and frustrations than when you went in? If so, you’re not alone. A lot of teams struggle with [...]
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Last month, well-known facilitator Alberto Brandolini taught us a few things about EventStorming. In his workshop, which lasted 2 days, he taught us the basics of the EventStorming technique as well as how to facilitate it. 12 lucky colleagues were part of this masterclass. Two of these are consultants at the same company and decided to [...]
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Our digital ping-pong scoreboard as a great example of innovation and fun at ACA At ACA IT-Solutions, we really care about innovation, our customers, teamwork and fun @ work. They are part of our core values. Heck, it’s in our DNA! So, is it a surprise that the first piece of working software coming from last year’s Ship-It Day is a [...]
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ACA does a lot of projects. In the last quarter of 2017, we did a rather small project for a customer in the financial industry. The deadline for the project was at the end of November and our customer was getting anxious near the end of September. We were confident we could pull off the job on time though and decided to try out an [...]
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Imagine a world where no driver is ever frustrated, no matter how long he or she is on the road. We, software engineers, spend a lot of time on the road. Not all of us live right next to our offices. Not so long ago, traffic and driving frustrated me enormously. Kind of like the Hulk, but without the huge muscles and green skin. Here’s [...]
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We all have email. Some of us even have multiple email addresses. From these accounts we send and receive emails for work and/or pleasure and some of these mailboxes are only visited occasionally. From snail mail to e-mail Snail mail and email have a lot of similarities. Fundamentally they do the same things, only email is digital. The [...]
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In this blog series we will give you a detailed overview of the Angular NL Conference highlights. The NG-Nl Conference in Amsterdam was the first AngularJS Conference that took place in The Netherlands and was filled with hosting sessions and workshops about AngularJS related topics. In part 1 of this blog series we will give you an [...]
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ACA is at Devoxx right now, and we’re there with our very own trade show booth. We needed some 16,000 Lego parts (including 10,500 building blocks), 48 kebabs, 27 pastries and 36 pizzas to finish things. But we succeeded! When I say ‘own booth’ I mean that we’ve created it entirely ourselves. We, that’s 23 ACA employees, who contributed [...]
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Yesterday morning after two hours of traffic, my colleague Peter Gevaerts and I got on the Eurostar towards London. And while the urge to have a shopping spree was strong, the anticipation to meet the Liferay staff and to hear about the new developments within the Liferay platform and community was even greater. It turned out to be a day [...]
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