Management

The Idea Since running a team and having to use off the shelf Retrospective products I’ve dreamt of building my own. Not only because I thought it would be interesting to do, but because everything on the market, at least in my mind, wasn’t great. What I wanted was something simple, easy setup, easy sharing with just a link and a simple User Interface with none of the bells and whistles other solutions have. Just a board, adjustable columns and cards and nothing else. ...

Overview Recently I’ve started onboarding Junior Full Stack devs using a beginner Project. Here is why I made that change, as well as what the project consists of and its outcomes What we did before, and why change? Before I explore why I’m now using this as an onboarding method I’ll explain what we were doing before. Throwing them into the beep end. That’s not something I’d recommend but traditionally we would spend a day going over the company, the next day going over some of the technology we are currently implementing. Getting them access to all the repos and tools and then saying “go and explore”. ...