ShipShip—The Automated Kanban Board
We work with multiple distributed teams. To keep everyone on the same page, we built an automatic tool called ShipShip to help keep information flowing.
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Swap jobs, become more agile!
At Shutl, we strive to be as agile as possible in our daily work. Being agile is not about using coloured post-it notes, having stand-up meetings, or about writing code like a headless chicken. Being agile is about adaptation: an agile team is able to constantly adapt to the environment despite time pressures, demanding clients,…
Books that made the biggest impact on me
I have came across a lot of posts and tweets where someone talks about books they have read recently, that had a big impact on their career or the way they work. There are the books that made an impact on my career. I’ve read quite few books, but when I think about it, few…
InternShip
At Shutl we believe it is very important to be a part of the engineering community and make sure we give back to it. We know that the first steps for individuals are quite often the hardest and we aim to provide support where possible. For example, we have been long supporters and sponsors of…
Feature teams 101
When I joined the company there was only an engineering team. As we started to grow we ended up splitting into three teams. There was the mandatory platform team that doesn’t require further explanation. The other two teams had wittier names and focused on the different aspects of the business. One dealt with merchants, carriers…
How to keep track of workload in an Agile manner
When you work on an Agile tech company like Shutl there are many things happening at the same time every week. Developers are constantly shipping new features and maintaining the company’s systems working to make clients happy. Sometimes this means adding features, sometimes this means fixing bugs that only manifest on remote corner cases and therefore…