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How to Run a Retrospective

Leadership Strategy

One of the things I enjoy doing is running retrospectives. I know, I’m a bit weird. No one likes meetings. Well, this is one important meeting in agile. Why? Because a retrospective allows your team to reflect on the last sprint and make changes. These can be any changes: process, code, metrics etc. With these […]

How to Decide Which Packages to Use

Strategy

At my current company (Agoda), we don’t have a strategy for picking what packages that we use (that I know of). Mostly, you have to prove that installing this package is useful and that it wouldn’t make sense doing it ourselves. We don’t want packages that will increase our bundle size (for javascript) as that […]

Git Branching Strategies – What Works and What Doesn’t

Strategy

I’ve been in several different companies now, and each of them has had different ideas on what the ideal branching method is. There is no one perfect branching strategy for your company/product. You can probably get any strategy to work with your team if you want. Today, I’m going to introduce you to a few […]