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Essays from September 2011

2 essays from September 2011

  1. Dude! Where’s my manager? or Why you should attend LESS2011

    Many teams start their agile transition from the “developer-side”. This is quite normal, developers (coders and testers) feel the pain more than others because they need to actually get the product/system finished. But by focusing on developers, aren’t we missing something? Aren’t we forgetting that many of the consequences we so detest come from un-informed …

    2 min readteams

  2. Guest post: Building and scaling a startup – Feature or component teams?

    There are some really cool startups in Berlin. Last week I met Alexander Grosse (@klangberater) from SoundCloud at ALE2011. Alexander is their VP of engineering and he had been thinking and writing about Feature teams. After reading his article I thought it would be a good and balanced view at that topic that could generate …

    5 min read

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