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How Things Work – Season 1
Work Culture

How Things Work – Season 1

Common Ground Back in the day, when I used to have hair on my head, we used to walk from town to town to visit friends. One of these afternoons, my friend and I were heading to see a third friend. On the way there, we got stopped by an

  • Nibal Sawaya
Nibal Sawaya Aug 14, 2021 • 2 min read
5 steps for 'You build it, you run it'
Product Development

5 steps for 'You build it, you run it'

'You build it, you run' it is a powerful concept for Product Teams created in 2006 by Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels. I would say, nowadays, mostly known as DevOps. Below I created an infographic with my take on 'you build it, you run it' in 2021, bringing the mindset and

  • Gustavo Soares
Gustavo Soares May 7, 2021 • 1 min read
Feature Teams vs Empowered Teams
Work Culture

Feature Teams vs Empowered Teams

After reading both books, INSPIRED and EMPOWERED, by Marty Cagan, I got motivated to summarize the difference between Feature Teams and Empowered Teams. For that I created the simple infographic below: An even more summarized version by Marty Cagan: 'Empowered Teams are assigned problems to solve and are empowered to

  • Gustavo Soares
Gustavo Soares Apr 29, 2021 • 1 min read
Familiarity - friend or foe (part 2)
Product Development

Familiarity - friend or foe (part 2)

This is a continuation of a previous post, Familiarity - friend or foe. It was not really meant to be the first part of, possibly, a longer series. Yet, I seem to have found another case where things that we know and ways how we work might be preventing us

  • Jacek Bilski
Jacek Bilski Apr 26, 2021 • 4 min read
Your own mail server with Postfix leveraging Gmail as storage
System Admins

Your own mail server with Postfix leveraging Gmail as storage

Table of contents What do we need Preparing the database Configure firewall SPF TXT record Postfix config Dovecot config Configure SSL Add new email to Gmail Conclusion Usually when you open your first domain and want to play around with your own setup you quickly figure out that you need/

  • Jan Čustović
Jan Čustović Apr 26, 2021 • 11 min read
Journey as a Product Owner Episode 1
Product Management

Journey as a Product Owner Episode 1

Blog post available in read-mode Well, with this post I am sharing my experiences, mistakes, and learnings I acquired as a product owner. Since it is a journey I thought to publish it in episodes, hope you get some information from my experiences. Before Product Owner I was a Test

  • Bidyut Thakuria
Bidyut Thakuria Apr 18, 2021 • 2 min read
Lean Development Principles
Work Culture

Lean Development Principles

One of the books that made me realize how powerful Lean principles are in a software development environment is the book Implementing Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. The principles written in this book comes directly from the Lean principles defined by Toyota, going all the way back

  • Gustavo Soares
Gustavo Soares Apr 18, 2021 • 1 min read
Future of Natural Language Processing and Its Paramount Importance

Future of Natural Language Processing and Its Paramount Importance

Hey Readers!! Before going deep let us understand what NLP is? NLP stands for Natural Language Processing and it is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which teaches machine to understand, interpret and manipulate human language. With the help of NLP, machine can make sense of written and spoken text.

  • Kuwali Talukdar
Kuwali Talukdar Jul 15, 2021 • 4 min read
Power Sector in India: Future Of Electrical Engineers

Power Sector in India: Future Of Electrical Engineers

Introduction: Power is one of the main inputs for driving the economy of our country. With a population of 1.4 billion, and being one of fastest growing economy of the world, India have become a major player in the world in terms of power producer and consumer. India is

  • Sandip Bordoloi
Sandip Bordoloi Jun 14, 2021 • 4 min read
Lightweight technical decision making
Work Culture

Lightweight technical decision making

Many times Tech departments struggle on how to make technical decisions. Usually the manager or a central department are responsible to take decisions, creating a slow and demotivating process for product teams. When we talk about scaling Agile in companies and giving teams autonomy, the best approach would be to

  • Gustavo Soares
Gustavo Soares Apr 26, 2021 • 1 min read
Product Development

From Tune Phase to Upfront design

Blog post available in read-mode The Value Engine is an Agile Framework built to promote value and reduce waste in the product developement. It might be also many other things, that is why I recommend watching a introduction to the Value Engine [1], before reading this Post. The Framework defines

  • Florin Zalum
Florin Zalum Apr 8, 2021 • 7 min read
Product Development

Agile Estimations

Estimations have always been a big topic, especially in the Software Engineering discipline. Independent of the method you use (such as waterfall / agile) or field you are in you will always need estimations. In this post I try to analyse some of the Agile estimation techniques in two layers (the

  • Gustavo Soares
Gustavo Soares Apr 8, 2021 • 1 min read
Work Culture

Trust based environment

What it means to have a trust based environment in your team, department or company? I believe that it simply means that people will feel secure, empowered and of course trusted. Through these powerful feelings, your organization can start enabling the high performance that many strive for. I would also

  • Gustavo Soares
Gustavo Soares Apr 1, 2021 • 1 min read
Work Culture

Leaders and Followers

Very deep quote by Tom Peters. There is many Leadership styles and variations out there, but I would say that this phrase summarizes very well what I believe. This quote is one of the ways that you can quickly identify a culture of micromanagement, which at many times affects negatively

  • Gustavo Soares
Gustavo Soares Mar 29, 2021 • 1 min read
Work Culture

Team Empowerment

Empowering teams is one of the hardest challenges for tech companies going through an agile journey. It’s not hard enough to start such a cultural change, but it’s even harder trying to maintain it. It is only through a mindset of continuous inspection and improvement that such a

  • Gustavo Soares
Gustavo Soares Mar 26, 2021 • 1 min read
Protecting Dev Teams as Product Owner
Product Management

Protecting Dev Teams as Product Owner

There is always a term we often come across, that is "Product owner must protect development team". Well as per me protecting team means No stakeholders should directly assign task to team without consulting with product owner Product owner must not say yes to all requirement coming from

  • Bidyut Thakuria
Bidyut Thakuria Feb 9, 2021 • 2 min read
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