Jonas Drieghe

Jonas Drieghe

12 posts
Why defining a product vision is crucial in ensuring you are building the right things.

Why defining a product vision is crucial in ensuring you are building the right things.

A company should have a vision, but a product should also have one. A product vision may sound like something large corporates work on. It may sound like a waste of time. However, a good product vision helps your team make the right choices while building your product.

Pulse: Episode 11 – On technical debt with Jonas Drieghe

Pulse: Episode 11 – On technical debt with Jonas Drieghe

Listen to this new Pulse podcast episode on technical debt where Jonas and Andreas discuss managed vs unmanaged debt, legacy code, code rot and give some tips on how to work with technical debt in any given circumstances.

Why retrospectives are essential

Why retrospectives are essential

Teams of all experience levels can improve their way of working, but only if they take a moment to retrospect.

Why is it good to deploy frequently

Why is it good to deploy frequently

Do you deploy every day? Your team probably should. Here's why.

​​Most common challenges faced by startups in 2024

​​Most common challenges faced by startups in 2024

It’s pretty evident that a startup in 2024 faces unique challenges that just haven’t existed in other years. Every entrepreneur knows that they will encounter difficult circumstances, clients, and people. It takes determination to scale a startup. We've seen this after auditing over 100 startups throughout...

Small commits: ask me why

Small commits: ask me why

Every time I work on code with someone I haven’t worked with before, I end up having the same conversation. It usually starts when I push my first pull request and they see something like +20/-40 in a single file using 11 commits. When I tell people that...

Habits, retrospection, and ancient reptiles

Habits, retrospection, and ancient reptiles

I saw an interesting heuristic regarding habits recently but I couldn’t find the source anymore. Bear with me while I paraphrase a bit. If you want to build a habit, never skip it twice. Skipping your workout once is okay, we’re all human, we all have changing priorities...

I'm starting a greenfield project and I'm terrified.

I'm starting a greenfield project and I'm terrified.

I started a greenfield project this week. I knew it was coming after one of our product managers told me about it during lunch a couple of weeks ago. To be honest with you, I was terrified. I’ve been at madewithlove for a little over 4 years now, working...

Towards better code reviews

Towards better code reviews

Building software isn’t easy. Add the opinions and needs of multiple people into the mix and it can feel almost impossible at times. Learning to collaborate with multiple people on the same software is an essential skill for every software engineer nowadays, as almost no software gets built and...

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