Systems Thinking
Occasionally I work with clients who have a major problem in delivering on time and to the agreed quality. When I start to investigate the causes I find that when I talk to the product team they say the problem is that …
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The impact of culture on performance
This week I want to talk about a podcast from techlead journal (link at the end), in which they interview the author of the book Wrong fit, right fit. In the podcast, the author (André Martin) talks about company culture …
How to conduct effective meetings
There is often talk about whether meetings are worthwhile, and whether they should be abolished altogether because they are a waste of time. Personally I find this view somewhat extreme, but I understand that it responds …
Do you know what DPE is?
DPE stands for Developer Productivity Engineering and is the name of a new discipline that aims to improve developer productivity through automation, observability and tool enhancement.
The work of a developer when …
Guide to do Code Reviews in your team
Code reviews are a practice that has become widespread in recent years, where one or more developers review the new code implemented by another colleague, with the aim of detecting code quality issues, bugs, …
Is your Scrum suffering from low productivity? Your problem could be WIP
It has been proven that the more work in progress a person or a team has, the more time it takes to close tasks. On the one hand, if we are doing several tasks at the same time and we deliver them at the same time, the …
The cost of being reactive vs. being proactive
On countless occasions we hear that we need to be more proactive. In other words, taking the initiative and anticipating problems. But being proactive almost always comes at a cost, which is paid in advance, at best a …