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The REST of the 10 Commandments

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One of the core things I’ve been working on for the past 10 years is APIs — everything from simple APIs that are used by one client to multi-device and multi-purpose APIs. During those years, I’ve also had the opportunity to work with many third-party APIs like Stripe, Twilio, and others who are less popular and glamorous. Almost all of those APIs were REST-based and unique in some way. 

There are many reasons why REST is so popular. It’s simple to understand, it’s flexible, it works on any scale, it has a great community and tools built around it. But besides those, I’d also say that a lot of popularity came from the fact that’s its oldest rival, SOAP, is just horrible.

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How I Built an Agile Team

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Implementing an Agile methodology was a critical success factor for the solutions developed by our team and for continuous customer satisfaction increase — indicated by the increase in satisfaction surveys, as well as the resulting customer comments congratulating the products and us. We develop solutions for a particular and crowded niche in the aviation industry.

Before introducing how Agile was implemented in our team, let me describe how our work environment was to contextualize it. In many articles about this subject, the authors state that Agile is not a silver bullet. I will also agree that this is true if you don’t receive the support from upper management. In our case, the need to go Agile was identified by the team, and the whole implementation process was bottom-up. We were lucky to have support from the upper management.

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How to Build Trust to Enable Agility

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One of the most common questions I am asked in my Professional Scrum Master (PSM) courses and in coaching engagements is:

"How do we build trust?"

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3 Reasons Why Unplanned Meetings Do More Harm Than Good

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Meetings are an intrinsic part of professional life. Meetings provide employees the opportunity to share ideas, network, improve their understanding of each other, and update employees and management alike on new developments.

However, when meetings are unplanned, they disrupt the entire work environment. Without a set meeting agenda, it is difficult to know whose attendance is a must for the meeting to be a success. Do you need the large conference room or the small one?

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