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...
It has never been easier for engineering teams to build and release new features for your customers. This fits well with our philosophy of shipping value to customers on a regular basis but does your customer experience this in the same way? And who should be in charge of releasing...
Just like any other agile team, we meet each day to discuss blockers and what we planned to work on. The goal of the meeting is to get everyone on the same page and make it clear when there is friction. We even tried async written standups. Then we cancelled...
Still scared to ship to production on Friday afternoon? Even after reading our previous post on maturing your release process? Here’s some practical advice on evolving your releases — from a fearful event to a trivial byproduct of building software. Building a release and go-to-market strategy is only possible when...
Ugh… I can’t believe it! How did he find that? This is my goal when I test for bugs. I want to find the little edge cases that developers haven’t thought about. I’m a product manager at madewithlove and at times I take on the role of...
It’s Friday afternoon. Do you deploy to production? A lot of teams are afraid to push their code to production before the weekend because something might go wrong that may impact their well-earned weekend. Today, I don’t want to dive too deep into how we can create enough...
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy In a continued push for asynchronous work, we attempted to tackle one of the last major meetings we had — Sprint Planning. I’ve found this to be the most dreaded meeting for developers since it’s often a time sink. With...
As engineers, we want to focus on delivering value to customers. We noticed that a lot of the projects we work on are following agile processes, but in a format that misses the mark. That’s why we started experimenting with how we could bring back the right focus. I’...
I hate Mondays. The theory is that if you hate Mondays you should change your job. And if you do that but find yourself hating your job again recently after joining a new company, well then it’s time for a new career. I got tripped up during a job...