Jan 27, 2022Understanding Engineering Team Performance Metrics and How to Get StartedIn this article, I will talk about understanding engineering team delivery performance. Measuring team delivery performance is a topic that people may have mixed feelings about. Therefore, it is important to understand why doing this, what it really means and how it can help engineering teams. Revised on Sept 2022 Understanding Performance …Metrics7 min readMetrics7 min read
Jan 27, 2022Engineering Team Performance: enabling metrics gatheringIntroduction 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)…Metrics10 min readMetrics10 min read
Apr 5, 2021How to improve your team performance using agile practicesTeams 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…Scrum6 min readScrum6 min read
Oct 28, 2020Data Storytelling — going beyond the numbersWith 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…Data Storytelling4 min readData Storytelling4 min read
Jun 23, 2019Member-onlySingle use photographic sensorsWell, 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…Photography6 min readPhotography6 min read
Apr 28, 2019Integration tests — an approach for the REST APIThe 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. …Kotlin10 min readKotlin10 min read
