Culture
Why you should volunteer for Smart Futures
Dublin is a great place for volunteering in Tech initiatives !
How Large Is YOUR Retrospective?
Can you recall the size and length of your typical retrospective? If your team operates by The Scrum Guide, your retrospectives likely have less than ten people in one room and last about an hour for a two-weeks Sprint.
Let’s run an experiment! Self-selection at HBC Digital
The POps Up Plant Shop
Don’t just read about DevOps culture, play-test it!
Don’t just read about DevOps culture, play-test it!
Voluntary Adoption in Action: HBC Digital Adopts Slack
Musings on Decentralised Control and Voluntary Adoption in Large Organisations.
Perfect Overnight Cold Brew
When HBC’s Mobile team worked at 1 Madison Avenue, my morning coffee ritual involved getting a large black iced coffee from myWayCup as I exited the 6 train at 23rd Street. What they served at myWayCup—a private-label version of Intelligentsia Coffee’s House Blend—was so good that I switched to iced coffee year-round—even through brutal New York winters—a trait that often earned me quizzical looks when ordering my preferred drink during...
BackOffice Hike
Now that winter is here and the cold is keeping us inside, I thought it would be good to dream of warm days and look back at a BackOffice team outing from October.