The 3 levels of Done
When a new feature is close to a deadline, and you ask the question: “how are we doing?” There are three levels of […]
Story points don’t work
We’ve been riding the agile wave for too long. Let’s face it: story points don’t work. In every single dev team I was […]
War rooms
“(…) war rooms are spaces where key people get together to solve a difficult problem” What Is an “IT War Room”? In software development, […]
A simple priority system
The key reason why your projects are delayed, your support team is slow, and overall your company doesn’t seem to make progress is a […]
Moving as fast as the slowest runner
Imagine that your team is in a race, and everyone is tied together. All the runners should arrive at the goal at the […]
Deadlines create technical debt
We were in the last stretch to ship a redesigned, reengineered, microservices-based analytics product. After a 6-months design phase, we were coding the […]
A lightweight framework for software development
You are probably familiar with agile methodologies, such as scrum, or the shortly popular XP programming, or even the formless Kanban. You’ve heard […]
A common contradiction in retrospective meetings
In a high-velocity sprint, developers need to cut corners, make some compromises, and push fun tasks to the next sprint. Retrospective meetings are […]
How to work with a remote development team
In the Ad Tech space is especially tricky to find engineers with the experience in the field. Sometimes you need to look overseas, […]
When is it time to hire a QA Engineer?
Hiring a QA engineer will cost you an extra of around $86k per year. That’s easy to measure. What’s hard to measure is […]