Software developers constantly make trade-offs. Picking an opinionated framework speeds up delivery, but makes it harder to build non-conventional features. Larger payloads vs multiple requests. Does this project benefit from...
Read MoreHow many stories are in your team's backlog? How many items are on the To-Do list? Count them. If you're like most other teams, the answer is: way too many. What's up...
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Read MoreSoftware development is a creative job. It's not a pleasant truth to most business people, who'd like more predictability. It doesn't fit in the worldview of most project managers, who'd want...
Read MoreIn once joined a team as a project manager and one of the first things I noticed was the lack of testers. Every team member was a developer and while...
Read MoreI've worked in plenty of large enterprisy organisations and one of the most painful recurring themes is employee detachment. We don't talk about it that often, but in an industry that's...
Read MoreNobody is productive for 8 hours straight and that goes double for creatives. No one can write great code consistently from 9 to 5, day-in-day-out. It's not folding boxes at...
Read MoreIf you spend some time on start-up boards or networking events, you'll run into them. Developers can spot them from the other side of the room and try to stay...
Read MoreIf there is one creature that has an almost mythical aura in the corporate world, it's the senior developer. Wise, battle-hardened and elusive, they are in high demand. I've worked with...
Read MorePeople want to grow. Teams want to improve. Companies want to do better. We'll define metrics and aim to grow those. We'll write down ambitious goals that should act as...
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