My agile profile
As an agile practitioner, my experience started in 2006 with Swingimprover, my Software Engineering end of degree project. During the year that last the project, we used Extreme Programming (XP) as a methodology being the Coach and Doomsayer of the team. Then I applied some of the agile principles and XP practices during my last years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
In 2013-2014 I chose to handle every aspect of my life in an agile way, putting everything on a Kanban board using the best tool out there, Kanbanize. Since then, I've kept a close relationship with the bulgarian company, mainly with its CEO. Later I took the design of the tool at that time as the base layout for my personal homepage which is arranged just as a Kanban board (something I called KanbanCV).
At VAIRIX I worked mainly with scrum. For that reason I did the Scrum Master Certification (CSM) with Alan Cyment and later passed the Scrum Alliance exam. Also, and responding to the needs of the company at that time, I designed, developed and carried out an agile inception workshop. The success of this workshop led me to present it in the Summer Camp on Entrepreneurship in Colombia, in Agiles2015 in Uruguay and different universities (Universidad ORT Uruguay, Universidad EAFIT - Colombia).
When I started being a full time Scrum Master at VIX was when I had time to fully put in practice a lot of ideas with a stable team. I lead them to understand their pains and face them with agile practices. They ended up turning a great Scrum team, divided internally between the backend and the frontend, into a Scrum squad and a Kanban squad built by full-stack devs. The Scrum squad was responsible for the medium and long term goals of the company and features of the product, while the Kanban team was responsible for the daily maintenance activities and bug fixing. Once every two weeks, we came together for a common retrospective and later for a planning meeting (using dot voting), where some Scrum squad members replaced the Kanban squad guys for the next two weeks. With the same team base, we did ~65 retrospectives, some of them very ingenious.
Last, but not less important, we did some efforts to add agile practices and principles to other areas of the company. i.e. we promote the use of retrospectives in the editorial area, where each editorial team performed several ones with mixed results.
Academically, since 2017 I'm teaching Agile Software Engineering at Universidad ORT Uruguay. Since 2018 I've been teaching Software Quality Techniques for agile and traditional projects at Facultad de Ingeniería (FING) - Centro de Posgrados y Actualización Profesional en Informática (CPAP). In this last institution I did a talk named Scrum Zombies & Orcs teams at JIS2019. Finally, since 2016 I'm an end of degree projects tutor, helping teams with their ideas and advising them in the use of different agile practices.
