By Sagar Paul
The gas-powered cars we drive today are far more sophisticated than our parents’ vehicles from 40–50 years ago. Yet, they demand almost as much, if not more, maintenance. Today, ‘vehicle upkeep’ often translates to replacements for no less than 3,000+ components — shooting costs up.
This trend…
This article will help you with two things: one, understanding how risk management can speed up your deliveries; and two, providing an example of a dynamic to engage the team to anticipate possible blockages during the product development phase.
Why is risk management so important?
In the context of product development, risks…
By Matheus Tait
Let me start this by introducing myself. I’m Matheus and I’ve worked on different positions in different projects and verticals, on companies and research institutes: development, business analysis, requirements analysis, technical leadership, innovation policies, and project management. …
Thoughtworks University: An intense, multi-week, international graduate onboarding program. This pitch for Thoughtworks University (TWU) is a big part of why I decided to join Thoughtworks in the first place. However, by the time I started, a global pandemic had hit in full force. Instead of traveling to India, I stayed home and my TWU term happened in a fully remote setting. How did the original in-person experience translate into meeting everybody only as pixels on a screen? Surprisingly well, actually!
During my first weeks at Thoughtworks, I had welcome-sessions, met my onboarding buddy and the people team and learned how to find people and communities within Thoughtworks. The graduates from Germany, who would be going to TWU together, started daily meetings and finished some self-learning preparation. …
By Jessie Wang
Operations research deals with a class of problems that is ubiquitous in the industry, such as scheduling and supply chain management. However, these problems are not easily solved (or even solvable, for that matter) by everyday mathematics or trending technologies, for example machine learning and data mining…
My name is Chakrit Likitkhajorn. In Thailand, we normally call each other by nicknames, so you can go with Chris. I love to build awesome tech products and my speciality is in programming. …
By Aj
In the wake of more mobilized social movements around the world, ‘allyship’ is a term that gets tossed around a lot. While anyone can claim to be an ally, to truly stand in solidarity with the LGBTQIA+ community requires going beyond hashtags, Pride flag-inspired photo frames on social…
Content warning — this is personal and will talk about suicidal ideations and suicide
For the longest time, almost 40 years, I wanted to not be here, to escape the pain that being me was causing me.
Since I can recall being aware of my gender…
I’m weary of carrying the burden of speaking up and stepping up only to be pushed down. White and allies are also tired of being told they’re doing it wrong or that it isn’t even their place to show up at all. This fatigue is impacting all of us, but…
By Jacob Bo Tiedemann & Tanja Bach
In over 50% of organisations, software developers only spent 30–40% of their time on feature development ( State of DevOps 2018; 2019). While DevOps and Continuous Delivery solve specific problems to increase the time spent on value-adding activities, your organisational performance is determined…
