One of my favourite things about Open Space tech conferences is that it shows what a group of people cares about at that time. CitConf covers the intersection of technical and non-technical aspects of what it takes to ship good software and attracts people with a variety of roles, contexts…

TL;DR — What I see in the wild is that Kotlin adoption on the server-side is slow due to a mix of complacency, career self-preservation, and lack of Kotlin visibility. In some specific cases, though, avoiding the adoption is entirely justified. It’s now almost five years since I wrote my…

In addition to a good salary, there are many ways companies try to attract and retain good people. Those benefits tend to say a lot about the organisation culture, which explains why companies bragging about their ping-pong tables have become a running joke in the industry. Here are some tips…

One of the challenges of running meetings over Zoom is including every single participant. …

I’ve recommended “Eight Behaviors for Smarter Teams” by @LeadSmarter so many times that I decided to make a summary of them: 1. State views and ask genuine questions Give context and share your views before asking questions to get better quality of answers. Genuine questions come from a place of…

There aren’t many teams where meetings don’t become a contentious subject at some point or another. Regardless of the topic and even before any meeting takes place, the way a team manages meetings says a lot about how they operate and how invested in self-organisation they are. The main contention…

When a team is looking to move towards Continuous Delivery, it comes a time when it’s essential to differentiate deployment from release. Traditionally, new versions of the software are built, tested, and made available to users in cycles that vary from once every few days to every few months. In…

One of the most challenging aspects of learning a new codebase is to understand how things got to be the way they are now. …