Release Note

Are you in a company that’s reached a stage where it’s necessary to scale your software development team? If so, congratulations! Growth shows you’re on the road to success. To continue forward, there are some things to consider before jumping into your plan for scaling up. There is a well-defined process for scaling up rapidly. While challenges and organizational growing pains are inevitable, with proper planning and tools you can tackle them like you would any other day at the office.

How do you notice and prevent software developer burnout as a team lead or engineering manager? Burnout affects each person a bit differently. It often starts subtly and progresses incrementally. Developer burnout feeds into a vicious loop that can make your developers quit or even change career path. If not corrected, it can also lead to health consequences. The good news is that its onset can be identified, prevented, and rapidly alleviated. Let’s examine how.

Benefits of teamwork in software development can be measured, qualitatively and quantitatively. Our recent discussion of Agile retrospectives helped to illustrate how. But, it’s worth going further. Today we’ll be looking at teamwork from another perspective. There are a lot of the things that go into teamwork are kind of hard to objectively measure. Think about it: Discipline. Confidence. Transparency. Trust. Morale. Let’s see why teamwork is one of the greatest assets for success.