Once you know you need a meeting, it’s important to make the best use of everyone’s time. This will help you prepare in advance, and ensure active attention to keeping the meeting on track.
Read MoreBest practices in determining when to hold a meeting, how to prepare key items in advance, and ensure it runs smoothly.
Read MoreThe benefits of pre-mortem meetings and how to conduct them at your organization.
Read MoreA behind the scenes look at the work involved in winning our first big government contract.
Read MoreSimilarities between writing and engineering and a few common tactics to help you get through either with less pain, more insights, and better relationships.
Read MoreOur reasoning behind using CircleCI for our testing and deploys, using a custom-made container image to run project builds and tests.
Read MoreTabs vs. spaces is one of the longest-running bike sheds in software engineering. Here’s why it’s something engineers shouldn’t care about at all.
Read MoreThe story of how we helped Gyroscope, a burgeoning data science startup, lay a solid infrastructure foundation for their service.
Read MoreA single custom-built docker image you can use across jobs and projects to avoid installing the same tools multiple times in a single build.
Read MoreA list of concrete actions your organization can take to prevent inflammatory attitudes from brewing under the surface and negatively affecting your workplace.
Read MoreSoftware updates tips and a couple of tasks you can do that, once completed, will improve your security going forward without further action on your part.
Read MoreAt this point, if you haven’t had a password leaked as part of a hack, you probably know someone who has. Here are some key lessons on how to better protect yourself and your data.
Read MoreA good retrospective is the most important regular meeting a team should have, allowing for incremental improvements over time. Here’s a look into how we do them at Truss.
Read MoreTruss co-founder Jen Leech was included in Melanie Ehrenkranz’s list of accomplished women in tech conference speakers.
Read MoreNobody likes poorly run meetings OR too many meetings. A well-crafted set of well-defined meetings, though, can make a software engineering team more efficient by ensuring that they build the right thing at the right time.
Read MoreOver time, our sense of how to best use Slack has evolved. Some of our innovations have proven much less useful than others; some took on a life of their own. This is the story of how we discovered that a default Slack setup should come with one additional channel that proved more vital than we imagined when it was created.
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that Truss has been awarded a contract on GSA’s Federal Supply Schedule 70 for IT goods and services.
Read MoreLessons learned from studying the strangely integral history of man pages and the tools used to make them.
Read MoreWhether you’re interested in becoming a mentor, have been mentoring for years, or are curious about teaching practices in the context of software development, the five pieces of advice below should give you a general idea of what to aim for and expect from the mentor-mentee relationship.
Read MoreTruss has been selected to be in the first cohort of Project Include’s diversity and inclusion initiative, a group of 10 tech startups and 15 VC firms focusing on best practices in building diverse and inclusive cultures.
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