I recently encountered an intriguing audience question at the CTOCraftCon Agile panel talk. It went something like this: “The original Agile manifesto was written by the least diverse group you can imagine. What could be a new approach that leverages diversity better?” The question was insightful, with some excellent answers…

Since mid-2021, we’ve been actively hiring engineers in Portugal, with the ambition to build a dev centre of excellence there. I've been meaning to write about why we picked Portugal and why we’re excited by this, but we’ve been super busy building a great team! …

In my previous post, I wrote about the Engineering Manager README, which is a good reckoner for people who already understand the dynamics of engineering teams. …

A lot has been written about career ladders, and how different companies have implemented them. This is the first article in a series explaining how we went about building an Engineering Progression Framework at carwow. …

This is the first article in the series “Effective 1:1s” by carwow engineering. One-on-One meetings (1:1s) are a critical part of running healthy engineering teams. For Engineering Managers, they’re the most important meetings of the week, uncancellable time slots dedicated to listening to engineers on their teams. While there is…

Restful APIs are everywhere. It’s the WAY to build client server systems and the panacea for scaling decoupled systems, or so they say. But is the concept of the RESTful API clear? I know a lot has been written about it but most of it is either very large documentation…