Today, having Continuous Integration is table stakes. Yet, CI pipelines are a common cause for developer frustration. And that’s why in this blog post, we walk through the five properties that make for a great CI experience.| www.swarmia.com
New Relic’s engineering organization is conducting a comprehensive team-health assessment project. Our goal: continuous organizational improvement through data—here’s how it’s going so far.| New Relic
Interruptions — anything that yanks a developer out of that elusive “flow” state — can appear out of nowhere. When you make your processes interruption-aware, your team can focus on what they do best: building great products.| www.swarmia.com
If you’re trying to decide whether to measure cycle time or velocity, cycle time is typically the better option. In this blog post, we explain why.| www.swarmia.com
Learn the essentials of the SPACE framework: the what, the why, best practices, and steps to get started — including an example template.| www.swarmia.com
Just because you can measure something doesn’t mean you should. In this article, we discuss the downsides of common Git metrics and suggest research-backed alternatives.| www.swarmia.com
In this article, we introduce a framework for balancing engineering investments across four categories and explain how to get started.| www.swarmia.com
Eight great reasons why you should write small pull requests and tips on how to do it in practice.| www.swarmia.com
If your software team isn’t shipping fast enough, you’ll want to optimize issue cycle time. Here’s how to identify and fix a few of the most common problems.| www.swarmia.com
Planning is one of the skills that separates great product teams from the good ones. Here’s the process we follow at Swarmia to plan stories as a team.| www.swarmia.com
Retrospectives using only subjective data easily lead to skewed insights and actions. One solution is to add a "present hard data" step to your retrospectives.| www.swarmia.com
Learn why the most successful teams use code reviews, how to adopt them with your team, and what 16 best practices we recommend.| www.swarmia.com