Alvaro articles - 49 total
Transforming Systems Operations Teams into a Unified Platform Team: The Cultural Change
Over the last months, I've witnessed firsthand the transformation of my team from a basic operation...
The Role of Transparency in Leadership: How You can Build Trust and Healthy Chains of Command
Discover why transparency is a cornerstone of effective leadership and how it contributes to a healthy chain of command. Learn how being open and honest with your team builds trust, fosters accountability, and enhances employee morale. Explore the importance of avoiding secrecy in strategic decisions to improve engagement and organizational performance. Embrace transparency to become a trusted and effective leader.
Job Trial Period: A Two Way Street For Success
Discover how job trial periods benefit both employers and employees. Learn to maximize this evaluation time for mutual success and informed decision-making.
Rethinking Technical Tasks: Define any task as user value
Discover how to eliminate the divide between technical and product tasks in your development team. Learn strategies for a unified approach to task management that enhances product quality, efficiency, and team collaboration.
Improving Mental Health at Work: Strategies for a Healthier Workplace
Discover essential strategies to enhance mental health in the workplace. Learn how to balance workloads, foster a supportive culture, and implement practical tips for both organizations and individuals to maintain well-being and productivity.
Long-Term Team Productivity: The Risks of Continuous Sprinting and How to Prevent Team Burnout
Discover the hidden dangers of continuous sprinting in software development. Learn how queuing theory impacts productivity, the adverse effects of long-term high utilization, and strategies to maintain a balanced, efficient, and creative development team.
Boosting Success in Engineering Changes: The Power of Patience & Alignment
Explore how patience and knowledge alignment can enhance the success rate of implementing new methodologies in engineering departments. Understand the role of culture, transparent communication, and leadership in fostering change.
Superstar vs. Rockstar Engineers: Balancing Innovation and Stability in Tech Teams
Discover the unique roles and contributions of Superstar and Rockstar engineers in tech teams. Learn how to balance innovation and stability for optimal productivity and competitiveness
Key Strategies for Building High-Performance Teams in Tech
Explore the journey from forming a team to creating a high-performance tech team. Discover the stages of team development, learn about traits of high-performance teams, and uncover effective tools to enhance team dynamics for optimum productivity.
Most Engineering Hiring Processes Are Broken
Explore effective strategies for streamlining the hiring process in the tech industry. Learn how simplifying the evaluation process and reducing feedback loops can help you attract top-tier talent faster and more efficiently.
Break Out Of The Comfort Zone: The Need for Big Leaps Over Incremental Improvements
Explore the limitations of incremental improvements and the potential of big leaps in software development and business strategy. Learn to identify signs of stagnation, enact change, and maximize your team's potential.
T-Shaped players, what the Market Needs Now!
Explore the T-shaped model for professionals in tech and business, highlighting the blend of deep expertise and broad understanding that fosters success in complex, user-centric markets. Learn how this model encourages continuous learning, enhancement of job satisfaction, and increases marketability.
Make Remote Work, Great Again
Explore the nuances of remote work in our in-depth analysis. Discover how the right strategies and tools can transform remote work into an effective, productive, and rewarding experience.
Unpacking the Truth of Peer Reviews in the Software Industry
Dive into the world of peer review in software development. Discover how it's more than just pull requests and explore the efficiency of pair programming backed by research data. Learn how peer reviews can improve quality, foster collaboration, and enhance team dynamics in various roles, from design to leadership.
Mastering Second Level Relationships: A Key Strategy for Workplace Success
Boost your workplace productivity and job satisfaction by understanding and effectively managing second level relationships. Learn about their impact, methods to assess them, and strategies to enhance these relationships.
AI In The Workplace: Are LLMs Hype or Reality?
Explore the potential and pitfalls of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the workplace. This comprehensive guide discusses the hype surrounding AI and LLMs, their psychological appeal, and practical applications in user-facing products, company tools, and work augmentation. Learn about the quality and licensing issues in coding with LLMs, and understand their impact on productivity and code quality. The article also highlights the importance of ethical decision-making in technology advancement.
The Strategic Vs. Tactical Mindset
Explore the balance between strategic and tactical mindsets in the field of engineering. This article discusses the importance of both perspectives in problem-solving, goal setting, and planning for the future. It also highlights how the focus shifts from tactical to strategic as engineers advance in their careers. Ideal for engineering leaders and team members seeking to improve their productivity and strategic thinking.
Product teams: Aligning to Value
Dive into the transformative world of product teams and vertical slicing in our latest Engineering Strategy 101 series. Gain insights on building cross-functional teams, fostering innovation, and aligning with customer values for more efficient and agile product development. Unlock the blueprint to revolutionize your software development approach and drive success.
Beyond Clean Code & Architecture: Adapting Practices for Project Success
Explore the critical examination of traditional coding practices like Clean Code and Clean Architecture. Understand the importance of aligning coding efforts with project and company goals, balancing innovation with discipline, and fostering a culture of critical thinking and adaptability to drive software project success.
Conway's Law: The Organizational Frame your Architecture will not escape from
Discover how to align your organizational structure with software architecture to meet user needs effectively, leveraging Conway's Law for enhanced product development.
Beyond Coding: The Cost of Software Development
Software development is not only about coding, it requires prevalidations, and alternatives to coding
Harmonizing Innovation: The Power of Common Practices in Software Engineering Organizations
What is the value of common practices in an engineering department. We will delve into how can you achieve a good level of alignment in your department.
Navigating Decision-Making in Engineering: A Framework-Centric Approach
How do we navigate decision-making at different levels, and what frameworks can help us.
Leaders Build Trust, Managers Take Control: The Path to Empowering Teams
Are leaders and managers important for organizational success?
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Tarant Fullstack Actor System in 5 minutes
Intro video about the fullstack actor model
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Tarant Cloud: Talk, Collaborate and Solve
An approach for a common abstraction level
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Double-edge Microservices: Macro Infrastructure due to Microservice Obsession
Macro Infrastructure due to Microservice Obsession the over-engineering of our age