By Valeria Spirovski

In 2011 Emma Coats, a former storyboard artist at Pixar, tweeted the “22 rules of storytelling”. The post has…

By Neal Ford

For most of the ’90s and the beginning of the 2000s, I was the CTO of a small training and consulting company. When I started there, the primary platform was Clipper, which was a rapid-application development tool for building DOS…

By Rouan Wilsenach

Test automation is not a new practice. Most software teams are trying to automate testing in some way or another, especially as a replacement for long, manual regression testing cycles. If you’re a QA, you’ve probably wondered what this means for your job. In…

By Patrick Kua

Becoming a Tech Lead is a tough transition for any developer because only part of the skills and experience you had as a developer prepare you for the expectations of a new role. Instead of simply designing and writing…

By Lukasz Plotnicki

Our friends at SoundCloud embarked on a journey a few years ago that changed their system and moved it from a monolithic Rails application towards an ecosystem of microservices.

By Dan McClure

Everyone knows that big cross-organizational change is difficult. However, not all organizational transformation is the same. This is particularly true for businesses looking to become fundamentally more…

By Aaron Sachs and Anupam Kundu

Many large, traditional organizations and their famously successful leaders have embarked on ambitious missions to “create, operate and trade” new businesses to compete with…

By Emma Carter

An Innovation Day is typically a 24-hour event in which employees form small teams to try and solve a problem relevant to the business. The teams have to present their ideas back to the business with a strong…

By Megan Louw

One of the phrases I hate to hear in a meeting is “best practice.” Some executives, especially those in large enterprises full of hierarchy, rules and rigid structure, feel the need to follow this dangerously linear way of thinking as…