As the days become shorter, the air is filled with pumpkin spice aromas and Hacktoberfest is ending, now is a good time to do some reading to get inspired and learn something new. This month's Dev Breakfast is focused on development teams and agile ways of working.
Caique is a polyglot programmer and agile evangelist who truly believes technology can change the world. He has dedicated the past 10 years to develop digital products covering a wide-range of industries - such as public sector, marketing, finance, and retail e-commerce. When he is not bridging the gap between business and technology, he is playing the guitar or spending quality time with his wife Cecilia and his super energetic puppy Ada.
In this article Gergely Orosz presents the findings based on a survey that evaluate how 100+ companies run tech projects. One of the main highlights being the absence of Scrum in Big Tech companies. This brings the reflection that it's possible to be successful by running tech projects without buying into an "out-of-the-box" framework. You can find a link to all anonymized answers in the article.
Changing from traditional project management to Agile ways of working involves mostly embracing unpredictability and managing risk in a different manner. This article from Kurt Bittner highlights why we should stop pursuing predictability and start embracing an empirical process of continuous improvement. This is, in other words, "responding to change over following a plan".
By Felipe Esperandio, Joaquim Torres, Paulo Caroli, and Tainã Caetano Coimbra
In my opinion retrospectives are the most important ceremony of any Agile workflow. FunRetrospectives is a pool of ready-to-use tools and ideas to turn these moments into exciting meetings where people genuinely have fun. With that, we improve the likelihood of gathering important information and effectively improving our ways of working.
Teams are the bread and butter of any Agile way of working. Therefore, understanding how individual people and productive teams behave is crucial for improving team and organizational performance. In this article, Ari-Pekka Koponen refers to interesting resources like DORA metrics, SPACE framework, and Project Aristotle, to summarize into the five key dynamics of effective teams as well as how we should measure productivity to be able to improve it following a continuous improvement approach.
The modern de facto solution to identity management seems to be OpenID Connect. OIDC and OAuth2 come with their own problems though. The intention of this session is to look at some of the problems these frameworks bring, look at some alternatives to OpenID for identity in your applications and what kinds of cases they might be applicable in.
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