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mlapshin
August 1, 2018
Guest Blog
Hey guys, Meet our new author Nirmal Kumar! Nirmal works as a Digital & Content strategist. He keeps writing articles on Scrum, career, finance and tech. In free time he travels to explore new places and get insights for new…
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mlapshin
March 17, 2018
Scrum
scaled scrum, Scrum, scrum@scale
Hey guys! We live in interesting times. Scrum was invented just a couple of decades ago, but now millions of people use it every day finding new ways how to create products with maximum value. However, it is still not…
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mlapshin
January 13, 2018
Scrum, Self-development
Hi guys, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The New Year comes with good news. I finally finished and published my mock PSPO I quiz for Scrum.org Professional Scrum Product Owner I assessment. As usually…
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mlapshin
November 8, 2017
Scrum
Scrum, ScrumGuide
Hey guys! Yesterday I attended a very interesting event that is important for any Scrum practitioner. The Scrum creators (or “Parents of Scrum” as they call themselves) Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland announced changes in the Scrum Guide. The changes…
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mlapshin
November 19, 2015
Self-development
Hi friends, Today I am going to tell you about your biggest enemy which probably you do not even care about. Everyone suffers from it. Again I will mention that the great Soft Skills book by John Sonmez told me about this hidden foe. John…
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mlapshin
October 28, 2015
Eclipse, Programming
Eclipse, programming
Hi guys! Today I would like to share my experience on how to survive the situation when you are developing under Eclipse and have a LOT of plugins. For example, in my current project we have more than 1000 plugins. We…
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mlapshin
October 25, 2015
Java, Programming
How-To, Java, lambda
Hi guys! Do you still not use Lambdas in Java? Today I will show you how event-based projects can benefit from them. Nice small listeners Lambdas could be considered as a handy replacement for anonymous classes. Vaadin is an event-based framework. So, before Java…
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mlapshin
October 15, 2015
Self-development
Pomodoro, productivity, self-development
Hi guys! Today I want to share my experience on how I considerably increased my productivity. I think, this is not the last time when I say thanks to the great Soft Skills book by John Sonmez for a good idea. A…
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mlapshin
October 9, 2015
Self-development
book, review, self-development
Recently I posted a list of books that are most recommended to read by famous and highly successful people. I started reading one of them: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. What is interesting about this book, it was written almost a…
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mlapshin
October 5, 2015
Programming, Reading
Guice, Java, programming, reading
My post is inspired by an article of Miško Hevery, who works for Google and coaches Googlers to maintain the high level of automated testing culture. The article contains concentrated Miško’s experience and gives clear advice how to write testable code. I think, every…
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