Cross-functional teams get all the rave right now. It’s yet another holy grail promising endless wealth, efficiency, and happiness to your company, employees, and clients. But chances are that your cross-functional teams are not functional at all. So how do you apply the principle of cross-functional teams in a way…
Building a team in-house that should cover all your needs all the time is sooo…. 2019. Or even more outdated, since delegating different services to remote partners, from HR to marketing to IT has been the “new normal” for a while now. Initially, looking for external help was mostly about…
It’s old news that there’s a digital revolution happening in the financial industry and fintech is becoming a leader in software development. With new solutions popping up left and right, ain’t nobody got time for hiring and grooming an experienced development team from ground up for every new project. More…
Over the past few years, more and more people got interested in working remotely. There are many reasons why this new approach towards our daily work is gaining so much popularity but the main reason for it is the freedom that comes with the possibility of working from anywhere. But…
Most of our projects use codecov.io to check code coverage and improve review process. But high code coverage value itself is not telling anything about quality of the code and tests, so we always try to improve the way we test our products. You can read about our mutation testing…
This post is a complementary check-list for these SLIDES HERE. Tech 4 key metricsLead time for changes (the time it takes to go from code committed to code successfully running in production) - good is less than an hourDeployment frequency - good is releasing changes multiple times per dayMean time…
What is Mutation Testing? Mutations are automatically seeded into your codeTests are runIf your testsfail -> the mutation is killedpass -> the mutation lived The quality of your test suite can be measured by the percentage of mutations lived. In other words, your application code is automatically modified. When the…
This post is about how we usually kick off feedback cycles with iterations on a product. After some customer development the team should have a few hypotheses about the value proposition of the product. The next logical step is to approve/disapprove some of those hypotheses, starting with the fundamentals: Are…
Every time we start a new project we do a retrospective and look back at our previous projects and try to evaluate which technical choices were good and where we might have gone wrong. Usually we are pretty happy with our Kotlin + Spring Boot + Postgres based backend, but at least I personally have constantly…
