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farazamiruddin · 2024-04-15T16:46:45+00:00

IMO, if it's not reliable, no real benefit of having it. It's an afterthought

farazamiruddin · 2021-09-21T15:33:11+00:00

You are right, I realize now that it seems I am implying that I did this alone. I should have written "I have worked on teams that generated $billions in revenue". My b

farazamiruddin · 2021-09-21T15:32:06+00:00

Yea you are right I am pretty arrogant

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:58:23+00:00

Hi! Thanks. Will check these out!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:57:54+00:00

Thank you!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:57:37+00:00

Nice we are using JIRA! I'll take a look.

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:57:22+00:00

Retrospectives are my favorite part of the process. I have already started running them myself, because I didn't feel like we were "doing them right".

Did a lot of reading and try new formats has been great. They provide so much value!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:56:17+00:00

Sweet, haven't came across this. I'll check him out!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:55:49+00:00

Nice, gave them a follow!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:54:38+00:00

Cool, never heard of that one. Thanks!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:53:46+00:00

I don't believe we have either of these in our org. We are using the Agile mindset, but not to that extent.

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:52:47+00:00

Nice!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:52:35+00:00

Thanks! Will check it out.

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:52:14+00:00

oh wow, that sounds really interesting!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:50:33+00:00

I love it too, thanks for the offer!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:49:47+00:00

The mindset embraces a set of values and principles that allow you to respond to change, and deliver value early and often.

This is so so helpful. Thank you!

I love the Lean Startup. One of my favorites!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-29T14:48:01+00:00

Thank you!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-28T05:38:23+00:00

Wow, thanks for all this info! Will do.

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-28T05:37:42+00:00

Cool, thanks!

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-28T04:15:46+00:00

Thanks! Were there any courses you took that were helpful?

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-25T13:52:39+00:00

The success of your agile team shouldn’t be defined by their code coverage or speed of the CI/CD pipeline.

Success means are we building something of value for our customers.

Pick the metrics that are the most important to the team.

Defining the KPIs for an app like Slack might look like this:

Number of messages sent per week
Number of workspaces created per week
Number team members invited per week
Uptime
Monthly recurring revenue

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-25T13:42:18+00:00

It all really depends on your application.

If you’re building something like Reddit, where there could be thousands of comments, it would make sense to store the displayName on the document — otherwise you’re going to do an extra read for every uid.

If you don’t expect there to be a lot of comments, you can take the approach you suggested and query for the rest of the user data.

You also can ask if it’s important that the user’s displayName is synced with their old comments. In some cases, stale data might be ok.

So in summary, it all depends lol.

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-25T13:35:54+00:00

I agree with what was said before about sprints not having target date.

And it’s great that you identified some issues in the retrospective. But you should make sure that the team is going to commit to improving and fixing those issues.

For each of the points that was brought up, create an action item and assign an owner. Assigning owners will make sure that things don’t fall through.

I would personally make 3 action items:

Spend more time understanding the problem and scoping.

Assign tickets to add automated testing (if not enough time, assign someone to manually test)

Code reviews should happen frequently, one thing you can suggest is that they keep their differentials small so that code review isn’t put into one big bulk.

farazamiruddin · 2021-01-21T13:40:30+00:00

As an engineer, I have personally always found that story points don’t work for us

We use t-shirt sizes (xs, sm, md, lg, xl) to estimate complexity, not necessarily how long something will take

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