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June 2025

CRC cards: Class, Responsibility, Collaborator cards
Software designing with CRC Cards
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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos
Test-Driven Development the basics
TDD is not just a technique - it is a philosophy of software development rooted in discipline, feedback, and evolutionary design.
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Exploring Testing Strategies: Past, Present, and Future
What Is a Testing Strategy?
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🧯 Never the expert: breaking knowledge silos and bottlenecks in technical teams
How "Never the expert" helps break knowledge silos, increase the Bus Factor, and reduce risk — from both a cultural and software economics perspective.
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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos

May 2025

❌ ÑaaS: when patches become a product
The cultural, economic, and technical cost of selling software illusions
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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos
The hidden leadership biases that sabotage true team autonomy
Autonomy is not just about letting teams "make their own decisions."
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Cognitive biases that sabotage the autonomy of software teams
Autonomy is one of the most critical ingredients for productive, effective, motivated, and innovative software development teams.
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Intersection of Refactoring and Design
A recording from Emmanuel Valverde Ramos and Denis Čahuk's live video
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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos
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Denis Čahuk
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🔓 From constraint to confidence: why autonomy in software teams is a strategic imperative
Great teams aren’t just fast — they’re autonomous. But autonomy is often misunderstood or missing. Learn how to move from constraint to confidence with…
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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos

April 2025

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