Getting Kanban Right (podcast with Fernando Cuenca)

When companies announced their return-to-office mandates, they promised enhanced collaboration, stronger team bonds, and improved company culture. In one Bangalore tech company, they got exactly what they wished for – just not quite how they imagined it. Picture this: A product team forced to brave 1-2 hours of soul-crushing traffic each way,...

My new year's resolution is that I want better alerts. I'm using Better Stack for log storage and want to live in a world where every time there's a worthy error, I get pinged. I only want the word "error" to appear in the logs if it's actually something that needs attention. So this Christmas Eve I started going through the logs just searching...

IntroductionThis is a debrief of the popular penny game which demonstrates flow. The questions a facilitator can ask during a debrief are varied. Some examples are below: How do individual times relate to delivery times? How was collaboration impacted? When was quality highest? When was re-work lowest? When was re-work cheapest/most expensive?...

I've been trying to find a good solution for having responsive widgets which people can use to embed show listings, sign-up forms and the like on their websites, and have finally come to a good solution: Web Components (with Stencil to make things easier). It's got an acceptable 97% caniuse rating (Safari having some caveats). The iframe-based...

The new DORA report got released and has 30 pages dedicated to AI adoption. One particular finding stuck out to me: an increase in AI adoption was correlated with an increase in code quality, quicker code reviews, decrease in code complexity, decrease in technical debt and improved documentation. However, it was also correlated with a decrease in...