This year’s LISA Conference in Portland was full of talks worth watching.
Read MoreBefore my changes, these tests ran in about 18 minutes. After my changes, they ran in about 6.5 minutes!
Read MoreWe’ve had to learn a few things in order to keep the organization functioning and aligned with our values. We’ve now codified the steadiest of these lessons in a distributed playbook on GitHub.
Read MoreAll hands meetings are important - they are a way to spread a message, a way for a team to get to know each other, and a way to move a decision making process forward. We see facilitation as the way to get the most out of a meeting like this.
Read MoreTruss’ research and design practice is a year old and we’ve been up to some good stuff!
Read MoreTips on how procurement officers can make use of some of the things the private sector has learned to make the procurement process more efficient, with fewer hurdles, without having to rewrite any laws.
Read MoreWhen building systems with threats in mind, it’s not enough to just plan, not enough to just raise the cost to a bad thing happening — we still have to have an idea of what we’ll do when the bad thing happens despite our best efforts.
Read MoreBest practices for conducting online meetings that inclusive, productive, and enjoyable.
Read MoreAdvanced facilitation practices around when to use structure and when to deviate — for those who want to level up their meeting skills.
Read MoreA framework with prerequisites and essential components of team collaboration.
Read MoreWe explore the research, behaviors, and attitudes that measurably affect the quality of output from any team.
Read MoreIn this final part of our three-part series about maximizing the value of meetings, we talk about one of the aspects of a good meeting: the facilitator.
Read MoreOnce 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 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 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.
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