We spend plenty of time as engineers either being onboarded into a new organisation / project or helping onboard others. The best onboarding experiences I've had have been low-stress, with a clear pat…

Love Jira. The main method of ensuring the team builds the right thing at the right time is a quality & well ordered backlog. The team owns the stories and tickets. The tickets are just a tool fo…

Here's my take on what it means to be a dev-lead / tech-lead / lead developer; and why it's time I stepped up. I'm going to explain what I think makes for a really good high-functioning dev team, and …

Someone has probably sent you a link to this blog post in response to you posting multiple messages in a slack channel on the same topic. Don't worry, we're not angry with you, we just want to help. W…