Engineering Brew — Issue #24

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Asynchronous Communication is the Great Leveler in Engineering — shopifyengineering.myshopify.com Shopify’s now on a journey of mindfully unraveling these default office behaviors and replacing them with remote-focused ways of working.

What Is Agile? A Philosophy That Develops Through Practice | Toptal — www.toptal.com Agile’s flexibility makes it attractive, but its lack of specificity also leads many teams to misinterpret its applications and follow frameworks such as Scrum too strictly. Agile expert Umar Ali explains how he helps teams prioritize the philosophy’s values and principles over its practices.

Building Stronger, Happier Engineering Teams with Team Topologies — Docker — www.docker.com Since 2019, we’ve significantly revamped our engineering teams. Learn how we used Team Topologies to build stronger teams, and how these changes have been beneficial.

How we’re using projects to build projects | The GitHub Blog — github.blog At GitHub we use GitHub to build our own products, and the new projects experience is no different. Check out how our team uses projects to build powerful project planning for developers.

Enabling Faster Financial Partnership Integrations Using Cadence — doordash.engineering Read the technology review we conducted to find the right task management technology for Dashpass onboarding. Learn why we chose Cadence