Introduction It is often easier to find resources that describe what it means and why to understand software delivery performance, but few are the resources available that help teams on how to do it. Tools like Jira and ZenHub provide useful charts for displaying metrics like lead time (a.k.a. cycle time)…

Teams are one of the most important elements of an organisation. Sometimes, a team works well together, and other times, they struggle. Therefore, it is important to identify the practices that help to shape optimal ways of working and unlock performance. A team will not be productive by chance, or…

With the incredible volume of data available today, and the technologies to extract the best out of it, people and companies now have an enhanced capacity for taking informed decisions, and on a much wider spectrum than before. However, to have all this data at your disposal does not mean…

Well, the single use may not be entirely true, once you can do double exposures. This story is about enjoying 35mm film photograph. The above picture was taken in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There is nothing special in the composition, however, it was a major achievement in my 35mm…

The kind of integration tests this story is about are the ones to be executed both on the dev machine, and in the CI/CD pipeline. The aim is to maximise confidence before the API takes off. The technologies applied here are: Kotlin, Spring Boot 2, Kotest, Mockito, RestAssured and TestContainers. …