techcoffeetime.com (Page 1)

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

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

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

Product Development

Familiarity - friend or foe (part 2)

This is a continuation of a previous post, Familiarity - friend or foe [https://www.bilski.tech/posts/random/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

System Admins

Your own mail server with Postfix leveraging Gmail as storage

Table of contents 1. What do we need 1. Preparing the database 2. Configure firewall 3. SPF TXT record 2. Postfix config 3. Dovecot config 4. Configure SSL 5. Add new email to Gmail 6. Conclusion Usually when you open your first domain and want to play around with your

Product Management

Journey as a Product Owner Episode 1

Blog post available in read-mode [http://www.techcoffeetime.com/read/?article=journey_as_a_product_owner_episode_1] 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

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

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.

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

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

Product Development

From Tune Phase to Upfront design

Blog post available in read-mode [http://www.techcoffeetime.com/read/?article=from_tune_phase_to_upfront_design] 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

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

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

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

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

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 1. No stakeholders should directly assign task to team without consulting with product owner 2. Product owner must not say yes to all requirement coming from