Managing work — Part V — Small increments

Who? Any (engineering) member of the (product) team. What? They will be leading the full cycle of an Epic from TO DO to IN PROGRESS to DONE along with the whole, or a subset, of the remaining engineering team. Potentially, they will also work with a product manager and a designer. Their…

My team doesn’t do estimates, we work on tasks and we like them to be small (whatever that means). We like to have a very short cycle time for any issue that we are creating in Jira (sigh). Since we are not “pointing” stories, a couple of weeks ago I…

At its roots, flex teams are groups of people with different expertise and from different teams working together to achieve a common goal. Example Hypothesis If we get the right representation from each team together for [amount of time], we will reduce cycle time, drive out unknowns, and make decisions faster. We…

This post is not to talk about Agile or Scrum or Kanban or Jira (especially Jira) but rather to share some definitions we’ve put together as a team, describing how we classify things we are working on, and what they mean for us. …

I’ve built useReducerWithLocalStorage, a React hook that adds local storage support to the useReducer hook. It could be useful if you need to persist locally (part of) the state of your React application. Working on Tweries, which is basically a form, I realized that it would be a very poor…

I started to work on Tweries in October of 2019. Tweries is an app that breaks down a long paragraph into several tweets of the appropriate length. In this post, I would like to share my journey from the “make it run” build phase towards the goal of “make it…

I’ve found a very funny conference call bingo card on Pinterest and I wanted to build a React app based on that to use during my conference calls. …

Given that Express is my favorite Node.js web application framework, very often I find myself having to unit test handler functions. Normally these functions are simply returning the send or the render methods invocation on the res object. Sometimes a status method is invoked right before the ones mentioned above…

If you have a module that exports a factory function and you want to mock one or more methods of the object returned by that function, this may be the solution you are looking for: https://gist.github.com/mattiaerre/da3fe3f01504bb5e2e481a16dafb96f4 This is where the magic happens: jest.mock('./makeMenusClient', () => { const mockMenusClient…