There are many factors involved in building a thriving team. This is what a CTO must consider when hiring expert…
Many startups give the CTO title to their technical lead. We think that’s a mistake. There is an…
Myriad discussions in software engineering have persisted over the decades. How exactly to estimate work is one of them. Should they be created by architects or by the team that will execute the work? Is it best to express them in hours, story points, or T-shirt sizes? Are you…
A lead recently approached me for a quote to rebuild a web application. Instead of providing an estimate immediately, I asked why they needed a rebuild and if we could continue with the current application developed only six years ago. I spoke with their CIO; unfortunately, the answer…
We recently audited a company in Germany. The investor wanted us to fly over to Hamburg for in-person interviews. It was on very short notice and a small audit, with only two to three interviews.
A little over ten years ago, I felt so annoyed with testing Apache’s mod_rewrite RewriteRules that I started looking for a tool to test them. The search was unsuccessful — no such tool to be found.
In short: A lot of teams we work with have the tendency to blindly copy methodologies from other companies. These processes are the result of constantly tweaking the way people work to tackle the problems that the companies faced. It’s very…
