Poor management is one of the main reasons why most startups and new products fail, despite the talent and dedication of their founders. Traditional management is not suitable for dealing with the high uncertainty that startups face, but adopting a non-management or absolute chaos approach is also ineffective. In this…

Introduction In the early days of software development, discovering and defining project requirements were often left to the control of business leaders who limited it to an annual exercise. These leaders would assign large-scale projects with predetermined deadlines to specific engineering teams, leaving little room for flexibility or exploration. Unfortunately, this…

Your top priority may be, as the first agile principle says, to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of value, but to deliver value you must first understand what value really means; in the past, delivering more value might have been achieved by just getting more stuff done…

Architects should always force evangelists for the tool or technique to provide an honest assessment of the good and bad, as nothing in software architecture is all good; as virtually every problem presents novel challenges, the real job of architects lies in their ability to objectively determine and assess the…

Defining team size Team right sizing is between 6–8 engineers during steady state; this gives managers enough time for active coaching, coordinating, and furthering their team’s mission by writing strategies, leading change and so on. Managers of managers should support 4–6 managers. …

To survive in a changing world like ours, we need to adapt, and to do so we must be creative; however, the control mechanisms used in most companies, which have been the same for the last decades, have proven to limit the creativity of staff and therefore bankrupt many companies…

This performance appraisal process serves a vital and irreplaceable function: it allows managers to meet their ethical obligation to let every one of their staffers know exactly what is expected of them and how they’re doing in meeting those expectations. The first question is answered at the start of the…

This guide is aimed at those who are building a web application and want to bring it to a productive environment, so that it is accessible to others, enjoying the benefits of integrating and deploying it in every small step. Important: There are many ways and combinations of different products…

Context Kubernetes was created by Google based on lessons learned running containers at scale for a lot of years and it was donated to the community as an open-source project. …