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TECH COACH E3 Ideal Team Organisation Structure

07 July 2025 Comments off

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In this episode E3, I talk about my ideal team organisation structure. My name is Peter Pilgrim and I am your JAVA TECH COACH. Currently, at the time of blogging, I am AVAILABLE 4 HIRE I have a lot of experience working in agile teams. I found really excellent people in great culture, which gell […]

TECH COACH E2 Project Inception

03 July 2025 Comments off

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In this episode E2, I take a look at project inception from a very high level of flight, the so-called golden eagle level. In my career, especially as contractor, the project inception has already started long ago on the day I join the project. A contractor job is to deliver the functionality, “hit the ground […]

PPJWT Countdown Day 3 – “Given When Then 4 Life, fools!”

25 February 2021 Comments off

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The time has come to start counting down until release. Given When Then is for life! How to Improve Your Personal Performance in Java work Technology? (video course as known as PPJWT) **** EARLY ACCESS **** Discount code: Nichelle1969P Discount code: Prince1999V (Limited availability, expires 31-March-2021) Vimeo-On-Demand commercial (£££paid) course https://vimeo.com/ondemand/personaltech Subscribe to my training […]

PPJWT Countdown Day 4 – Dreaded daily standup

11 January 2021 Comments off

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The time has come to start counting down until release. How to Improve Your Personal Performance in Java work Technology? (video course as known as PPJWT) **** EARLY ACCESS **** Discount code: Nichelle1969P Discount code: Prince1999V (Limited availability, expires 31-March-2021) Vimeo-On-Demand commercial (£££paid) course https://vimeo.com/ondemand/personaltech Subscribe to my training channel for future exclusive videos. Follow […]

PPJWT Countdown Day 5 – A Positive Mindset for 2021 and beyond

05 January 2021 Comments off

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The time has come to start counting down until release. I am now close to editing, encoding and rendering about 9 hours of content so far. How to Improve Your Personal Performance in Java work Technology? (video course as known as PPJWT). In this sneak peak, I discuss concepts of retrospectives in a much broader […]

PPJWT Countdown Day 6 – The real value of retrospectives

02 January 2021 Comments off

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The time has come to start counting down until release. How to Improve Your Personal Performance in Java work Technology? (video course as known as PPJWT). In this sneak peak, I discuss concepts of retrospectives in a much broader sense of the word. **** EARLY ACCESS **** Discount code: Nichelle1999P Discount code: Prince1999V(Limited availability, expires […]

Improving your Personal Performance in Java work Technology – Early Access

14 October 2020 Comments off

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Hey all! Did you know that I creating a non-technical video course? It is called How To Improve your Personal Performance in Java work Technology? I plan to announce early access to coincide with Black History Month (1st October to 31st October annually) The place holder for this course is exclusively on Vimeo-on Demand. I […]

Test-Driven Development using Kotlin by Peter Pilgrim Java Champion

04 February 2020 Comments off

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ANNOUNCEMENT NEW COURSE I have recorded video online lecture, online course, if you will. It is called Test-Driven Development using Kotlin by Peter Pilgrim Java Champion and it is available on Vimeo.     STOP PRESS My course is now also available at Teachable (PEAT School).   Enroll in Course   Feedback is very much […]

Devoxx 2019 – Why we pair?

10 November 2019 Comments off

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Last Thursday, at Devoxx Belgium 2019, I presented a talk called “Why we pair?” This is my talk on Youtube ?       Here is feedback from my talk:   Peter Koch (@petikoch)   Ko Turk (@KoTurk77)   Gerry Noij (@Misano9699 Supreme benefits)   Gerry Noij (@Misano9699 Challengers)     Google Slides (Readonly access): […]

Digital Java EE 7 Training Series 1 Episode 8 parts I and II

04 September 2017 Comments off

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Digital Java EE 7 Training Series 1 Episode 8 part I In this episode I discuss modern microservices with Payara and RESTful services     This is part I Digital Java EE 7 Training Series 1 Episode 8 part 1 from Peter Pilgrim on Vimeo.     This is part II Digital Java EE 7 […]

The Next Digital Transformation Engagement

27 April 2016 Comments off

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This is just a note to say, get in touch, especially, if you are looking for help with Java modernisation, moving from Java 7 to 8 and beyond and digital transformation of services. I am available for contract hire from May 2016. See my Linked-in Profile (new windows) for more information and how my strong […]

Is TDD Dead Or Alive?

10 July 2014 Comments off

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This blog post is for those of you who are unaware that there is a major debate in contemporary software development happening now, today. People have been wondering about the value of Test-Driven Development (TDD) for a long while, but it was not until David Heinemeier Hansson of 37 Signals  posted a blog article on […]

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