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Product Engineering Strategy

October 19, 2023 By Alex Leave a Comment

An engineering strategy goes beyond your OKRs (if that's what you use for goal setting). It goes into where you want the organization to be …

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Scaling Innovation

August 21, 2023 By Alex Leave a Comment

It's been a long time since I sat down to write out my thoughts. Over the past couple of years, I've been working on my MBA. I successfully …

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Dashboard Fatigue

August 6, 2018 By Alex 1 Comment

Dashboard fatigue is a real thing. I've experienced it first hand! Before Agoda, I would've told myself that there's no such thing. But …

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JIRA v Whiteboard

July 16, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

You know how you can automate everything but some things just shouldn't be. Well, this process is kind-of one of those things. I'm …

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Past Velocity and Prediction

July 9, 2018 By Alex 1 Comment

I don't know about you - but when you talk about stocks, or markets, or funds - the general rule of thumb is: Past performance is not an …

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Treat Your Tests Like Your Code

June 18, 2018 By Alex 1 Comment

Over my many years as a developer, I have noticed a pattern. This pattern is to do with unit tests. Especially those who write unit tests. …

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How Do You Decide Which New Thing to Take?

April 30, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

I know you may think this topic is familiar. I mean, I did talk about it in my previous post about how you decide which package to take. But …

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What IDE Do You Use?

April 23, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

I'm curious to know what IDEs people out there use. But before anyone tell me what their IDE of choice is, I'll give you mine and how I …

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What Does Agile Mean?

April 16, 2018 By Alex Leave a Comment

Today I want to talk about what agile means to me. I mean there is a standardised definition which I've quoted below from the agile …

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