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Make three friends with one gift: Why developer experience is key to productivity, engineering excellence and stakeholder satisfaction.

February 11, 2023

Investing in developer experience leads to improved productivity, better engineering practices, and increased stakeholder satisfaction. Positive developer experience starts with providing access to technology and tools, fostering collaboration, and streamlining workflows. Create a comfortable work environment, offer training opportunities, and invest in your team’s growth to achieve a motivated and productive development team.

The Importance of Developer Productivity in a Recession

November 26, 2022

Developer productivity is a crucial topic for high-performing software organizations. It becomes even more important when times get tough and the budgets are small.

How to do Architecture Mapping Workshops in a Remote Setup

July 23, 2022

Mapping the architecture of the system that you are building in your company, is a worthwhile activity. With a bit of preparation you can run successful architecture workshops in a remote setup.

DRY – DO repeat yourself

April 30, 2022

DRY is one of the most misunderstood and abused principles. Copy more, reuse less!

Code ownership conflicts as a signal for structural mismatch

February 19, 2022

Code ownership on a team-level can not only help to identify the team that has knowledge in a certain area, it also can serve as a signal for a mismatch between architecture and team structures.

Code Ownership: Keeping the balance between structure and agility

February 12, 2022

Code ownership is an important topic when it comes to enabling your teams and allowing developers to improve the system while keeping the overhead of changes low. While today, most companies would (hopefully) agree, that individual code ownership is bad because it creates knowledge silos and makes the organisation dependent on individuals, code ownership still is essential on a larger scale.

A platform team for next-level developer experience

February 5, 2022

Developer experience is a crucial topic which affects all development teams of a company. Therefore, it can be beneficial to introduce a team that has as their only mission to improve developer experience and productivity as these improvements multiply the impact of the other teams.

OKRs are NOT guaranteed deliveries

January 22, 2022

Objectives and key results are a great tool for collaborative goal-setting and for aligned on a company-wide direction. Problems start, when teams start to rely on other teams OKRs to be finished in time.

There is no system like production: Why you should test in production

December 11, 2021

If you do not test in production, your customers are the only ones, who do. While it sounds scary at first, testing in production is an important addition to pre-production quality assurance processes.

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