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How to Use and Improve Your Iteration Burndown Chart

An iteration burndown chart is a key component in agile and scrum. Learn several advantages and disadvantages of using burndown charts.

Tarun Telang

June 7, 2022

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What Is a God Class and Why Should We Avoid It?

A god class is an anti-pattern that can harm your codebase in many ways. Learn why it’s so dangerous and how to avoid it in this post.

Carlos Schults

June 3, 2022

Leadership

The backlog refinement meeting is a bit of a black sheep in the Agile framework. The Agile Manifesto gives little guidance about it; it doesn’t even specify...

Brittani Kooiker

June 3, 2022

5 Best Engineering Performance Metrics to Measure Your Team

So you decided to become an engineering leader. Congrats, your ability to pay your mortgage now depends on your team’s capacity to reflect regularly on how to...

Jason Williscroft

June 1, 2022

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5 Code Smell Examples That Are Probably Already in Your Code

See some code smell examples you’re likely to find in your codebases, understand why they matter and learn how to solve them.

Carlos Schults

May 23, 2022

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Eng. Metrics

What Are The Four Accelerate Metrics And Why Do They Matter?

Learn about the accelerate metrics, four key metrics from the Accelerate Book. You’ll learn what they are and why they’re important.

Oscar Jite-Orimiono

May 20, 2022

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How is Performance Measured in Scrum?

Typically scrum team performance is measured by calculating the deliverables and effectiveness of the scrum team. Common metrics include velocity and sprint...

Sarah Shores

May 19, 2022

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How To Become A Better Software Engineering Manager

This post lays out common challenges software engineering management faces every day, and some strategies to up your game and enhance your department.

Justin Reynolds

May 18, 2022

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DORA Metrics: We’ve Been Using Them Wrong

I’m a big advocate for the DORA 4 metrics. When used in the right context, they’re a powerful tool to drive engineering improvement. But, as a community, we’re...