Don Gunter·Oct 27Evidence You Can Try: A Workstation Becomes an Open WorkshopA Phase 1 progress report — and a few small experiments in planning, business intelligence and accountable software.
Alex Chang·Oct 18When Does Follow-the-Sun Engineering Actually Work?In May 2023, GitLab was working on Code Suggestions in the Web IDE. As the team discussed adding people across time zones, it placed a…
Alex Chang·Oct 17Documentation Is Not the Same as Shared ContextThe WIRE team at IBM Watson Discovery once recorded a load limit in an architecture decision record, or ADR. Nine months after launch, its…
Alex Chang·Oct 17When Silence Doesn’t Mean AgreementIn a software team split between Canada and Germany, fast-moving telephone discussions in English left some German participants struggling…
Chris Ng·Oct 17I Built Delivery Teams From Zero for Clients Who Were Asleep While I Worked.Every remote playbook sells you overlap hours and async tools. Your client never sees either. They see what’s waiting in their inbox when…
Alex Chang·Oct 16How Managers Make Cross-Team Work Come TogetherIn late 2018, another team at Salesforce wanted to add a feature to the main mobile app. Its request had to fit into the app team’s…
Alex Chang·Oct 16Decision Latency: Handle This Wait, Change the Next OneA public Miri review left a record of an easily overlooked kind of wait. At the reviewer’s request, the author wrote a test that read from…
InThreadSafebyThe Turtle Code·Oct 16Distributed Job Scheduling in Spring Boot: Prevent Duplicate Execution Across Multiple InstancesA scheduled task works perfectly when your application runs on a single instance.
Alex Chang·Oct 15When the Owner Is Offline, Can the Work Continue?In 2023, GitLab’s Web IDE team was changing authentication for code suggestions. Tomas handed over a draft for Paul’s feedback. Paul…
Svitla Systems·Oct 8Managing distributed QA teams across time zones: Lessons from 10+ projectsOriginally posted on https://svitla.com/blog/managing-distributed-qa-teams-across-time-zones-lessons-from-10-projects/
