- Engineers, Culture, Core Values and Interviews Over the years, I have been part of the hiring process of some 40 to 50 software developers, as with most engineers, the majority of my interviews were very technical, diving into code, processes, and architecture, one thing I learned slowly was how to probe for team and company fit. Of course, with a quick […]
- Scrum-But is still better than what you are doing For the last three years, I have been implementing Scrum methodologies in the companies I have been joining. A couple of years ago I joined a company that was trying to rewrite its e-commerce website for a year and a half. Applying Scrum and shuffling the team to have the assets we needed to build […]
- Channels are not the best way to handle internal discussions (This article is a follow up on Jason Fried Is group chat making you sweat? I suggest you read it before reading this one) It’s funny to think that 7-8 years ago companies were banning MSN messenger because they were afraid employees were losing too much time chatting. Today companies have full-blown messaging apps integrated […]
- Scrum, the hard parts If your team is trying Agile for the first time, then there is a big chance you guys are using Scrum. Scrum is an easy proposition at first glance, push out product increments at a consistent pace with stakeholders feedback, who would say no to that? Obviously, there is a lot more than what you […]
- Hiring devs The way a company hires developers can say a lot about their culture. Is there a very strict HR followed process, tests and the type of those tests, culture-fit interviews, etc. While the point of all this is to test the candidate, it can give great insights to the other side of the table. In […]
- Jira, stakeholders and release notes Jira influence over Agile project management tools is undeniable. It’s old, big, has lots of add-ons and a mountain of configurations that your big tech department management will love. However one thing Jira never seems to get it right is the UI. The web interface tends to be slow and convoluted, it’s not great either […]
- My controlled input dilemma with react & redux “An input that does not supply a value (or sets it to null) is an uncontrolled component. In a controlled input, the value of the rendered element will always reflect the value prop.” The input onChange event is something I always been careful with. You do not want to execute too much code while a […]
- Thoughts about React, Redux & javascript in 2016 The Javascript language is transforming, with ES6 & new frameworks following different philosophies, if you are currently doing some ES5 with Backbone; it’s time you give it a look before the whole ecosystem changes without you. To put this piece in perspective, I started ten years ago as an HTML/CSS/Javascript integrator with IE6, lived the […]
- Where did my Google Drive “shared with me” tab go? Update: Google changed Incoming back to Shared with me. Without even probably realizing it Google Drive have become an integral part of my day to day toolset, everyone in my company use it to share documents across teams & departments. For a tool to be useful It is important that our workflow is as painless […]
- 6 things an email marketing manager should know It’s sometimes hard for a marketing manager to move into email marketing management, going into it head down can sometimes even cause a melt down on their first campaign. Doing email marketing is special, you have a lot of tools available but at the same time you are dealing with a very outdated technology. Here […]