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Jul 21

Micro habits for developers to achieve sticky agile transformation

By Sachin Dharmapurikar Sticky transformations are those where engineering teams adopt productive practices as a habit and need no external influence to go through with them. But engineering transformation requires a change in organizational mindset and a successful transformation requires continuous change. During a transformation exercise, coaches, teams and leadership…

Developer

3 min read

Jul 21

Using machine learning to identify antimicrobial peptides

By Pooja Arora and Shraddha Surana Nearly a hundred years ago, antibiotics became mainstream. Since then, antibiotics have saved countless lives. However, its widespread and irrational usage over the last century has made bacteria resistant to them. It is estimated this could be a cause for millions of deaths by…

Peptides

5 min read

Jul 20

Cognitive biases: blindspots in building compelling products

By Pawan Prasad and Ajit Kumar The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct. Daniel Kahneman, Renowned Psychologist and Economist, 2002 Nobel Prize Winner Humans are influenced by biases…

Cognitive Bias

5 min read

Jun 21

Engineering productivity governance and improvement in software delivery

By Wilson Gao and Sichu Zhang In Agile delivery, we often face a variety of problems, not just limited to technology but also across processes, tools, capabilities, customer constraints, ways of working, management and more. All of these things will affect the outcome of delivery, and in some cases, even…

Engineering

9 min read

Jun 20

What’s it like to be a software developer at Thoughtworks?

By Patricia Chmielowiec I joined the Thoughtworks recruiting team in Spain 6 months ago. What is fascinating about my job is that every day I get to meet new people and discover what it’s like to be a developer here. The other day I got the chance to chat with…

Software

4 min read

Jun 20

In your boardroom my biggest worry is Norm

By Dr J Harrison I have the most amazing job title ‘Harbinger of Change’, and I am a Principal Consultant at Thoughtworks with twenty-plus years of experience. Yet when I walk into your boardroom my biggest worry is Norm. Now don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Norm. …

Diversity

5 min read

Apr 26

Aligning data architecture with organizational structure in the financial services sector

By Danilo Sato and Richard Nicholson New data architectures aren’t just creating new possibilities for financial services institutions, they’re giving them choice — enabling them to align data architecture with organizational structure and strategy. Over the past two decades, data architectures have evolved significantly. From the advent of storage area…

Data

2 min read

Apr 26

Exploring a 360 approach to climate responsibility

By Daniel Fratte Background At Thoughtworks we have always been concerned with the relationship between tech and society since our founding almost 30 years ago. We take it seriously and work effectively and consciously in every partnership or engagement to see this addressed. …

Climate

5 min read

Apr 26

Two questions Business Analysts should keep asking (ourselves and others)

By Gonzalo Carabaña We, as Business Analysts (BA), spend a lot of time asking questions with different purposes. Sometimes it’s to gather requirements or to better understand a certain risk. Other times, we ask questions to get a conversation started or to help spark a thought in someone’s brain. There…

Business

3 min read

Feb 25

Two straight lines forms a circle

By Harshal Shah Thinking is hard. The quality of deep sleep you get every day is equally proportional to how much brain you use. According to my wife (KD), this theory of hers is as true as gravity. This is her standard response to my eternal complaint about how well…

Team

4 min read