Keeping your team healthy and more productive using remote work
When managing any team, remote or not, one of your primary concerns as a manager is making sure your team can be as productive as
Team dynamics
Leadership dinner
It was already past midnight when I drove home on my bike. The stormy weather earlier that evening had calmed down, but the broken branches
My female perspective at madewithlove
Who hasn’t heard the quote “We only hire the best candidates?” How many of those teams only have straight white men? I’ve been
We are not a remote-first company
Although we have employees in 7 countries — not bad for 20 people! — madewithlove is not a remote-first company. Yes, we work remotely, but there
Sit down! Why you are wasting time with standups
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
I don't trust this kid any further than I can throw him
Would you trust Ferris Bueller to work on your project? Probably not. But how could he earn your trust? When joining a new project, there
Experimenting with asynchronous planning
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
Delivery oriented stand-ups
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
One job, many roles. The different skills needed to be a successful CTO
Some time ago I came across this article on Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge blog about when founding CEOs need to go. It’s
Someone's got a case of the Mondays
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
Pair programming as a newbie and the fear of judgment
I’m new to pair programming. While the concept of pair programming is certainly not new to me (see among many, “The Clean Coder” by
Bridging experience gaps while pair programming
Some weeks ago, I was doing a talk about how you can make pair programming effective and enjoyable. Everything went well until I got a
The responsible developer profile explained
At madewithlove, we take much pride in our company values. They are ingrained in everything we do, from selecting customers to managing our work-life
Guiding teams to a better way of working
The following post will discuss how you can guide a team to a better way of working. Important side note: this post assumes that the
How efficient is pair programming? Will it work on your team?
It is quite easy to see pair programming as using double the resources for writing the same piece of code. If wrongly applied, this might