How we use the hill chart to conquer deadlines
The hill chart may sometimes be overlooked due to its simplicity, but it’s actually a very powerful tool for helping teams ship on time. Find out how you can use it effectively.
What is Basecamp's Shape Up method?: A complete overview
The Shape Up method is a modern product development philosophy. It gives product teams a stronger sense of purpose and focus, and helps them become more productive.
Dispelling myths about Basecamp's Shape Up
Are you considering adopting Basecamp’s Shape Up? I will discuss seven common myths about Shape Up.
Is Shape Up just a nice theory?
Here at Curious Lab we “eat our own dog food”, in that we adopted the Shape Up “methodology” while building Shape Up Board for Jira.
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Deploying a Django app to AWS using Elastic Beanstalk
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How creativity can make you a better engineer
Creativity is something that is undervalued but unknowingly all professions need to tap into their creative side to excel. In software engineering there is a vast amount of creativity that needs to be used daily. There can be a few things you can do ensure that you surface creativity in your day to day.
You Should Know About Goodhart's Law
In 1975 C. Goodhart coined “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”. Fifty years on, I find this to be more relevant than ever.