Agile Metrics - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

"Suitable agile metrics reflect either a team’s progress in becoming agile or your organization’s progress in becoming a learning organization."

The Reality of Developer Burnout

"Burnout is, unfortunately, a very real phenomena in software development — especially when creating and maintaining open source projects with large numbers of users."

Planning as a social event – scaling agile at LEGO

"The past couple of years I’ve been travelling back and forth to LEGO’s HQ in Billund Denmark, helping out with their agile journey. Super interesting! Learned more than we could ever fit in an article, but here’s an attempt to capture at least some of it."

Scrum "Shock Therapy" How To Change Teams FAST

"The Framework of Scrum provides many options for customization and interpretation for each Team. In my experience, most teams just starting out are so overwhelmed with choices and potential that they can't find a constructive way to start."

How to run a successful hackathon

"How to setup, run and get value from hackathons"

Deep Learning Enables You to Hide Screen when Your Boss is Approaching

Must read: "First, let the computer learn the face of the boss with deep learning. Then, set up a web camera at my desk and switch the screen when the web camera captures his face. It’s a perfect strategy. Let’s call this wonderful system Boss Sensor."

The Human Cost of Tech Debt

"Coined by Ward Cunningham, the term introduces the idea that taking shortcuts in your software today not only means paying the price eventually — it means paying that price with interest.  In other words, introducing that global variable today and saving half a day’s work ahead of shipping means that you’re going to pay for it with more than half a day’s labor down the line."

The Stack That Helped Medium Drive 2.6 Millennia of Reading Time

"Medium is a network. It’s a place to share stories and ideas that matter — it’s where you move thinking forward, and people have spent 1.4 billion minutes — or 2.6 millennia — reading on Medium"

How terrible code gets written by perfectly sane people

"What I discovered after some months working there, was that the authors were actually an experienced group of senior developers with good technical skills. So, what could lead a team of competent developers to produce and actually deliver something like this?"

Activities from Retromat

The weekly retro activity comes from Retromat by Corinna Baldauf. Do your team a favour and pick up a copy right here!