The Concept: For the last Hacker Week of 2018 I decided to try out how to use my newly bought Google Home Mini for monitoring our Backend Services. The idea was that google assistant should beContinue reading
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Monitor your services (and everything else) with Raspberry Pi, Android Things and Firebase
We were searching for an easy way to visualize the status of our backend services, the current state of our Jira board and the progress of our automated tests. A traffic light turning from greenContinue reading
React chat app without the need of coding a backend
During the hackaweek I focused on building an hybrid chat app. The challenge was using the same source code for both mobile platforms (Android & iOS) and creating a chat app without the need of actuallyContinue reading
Requirements Engineering @ myToys IT – methodische Unterstützung in Form eines Workshop
Im heutigen Blogeintrag möchten wir über eine typische Aufgabe des myToys Requirements Management (RM) berichten. Wir als RM-Team bei myToys verstehen uns als Competence-Center für methodische Ansätze. Hierzu gehören neben der Anforderungsaufnahme vor allem dieContinue reading
How IT can drive the speed-up of organizations
Many organizations watch the well-known tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Apple and see with envy, how these companies continuously innovate and quickly adapt to changing market circumstances. At the same time, other companies struggleContinue reading
Cross Functional Doesn’t Mean (just) Work Allocation
Cross-functionality is one of the most difficult steps in an Agile transformation. Resistance comes from many different points such as team members who are afraid of opening their silos, managers who lose their head-counting power or a hiringContinue reading
Agile leadership
Nowadays, agile culture is affecting not just the internal teams‘ structure but also the whole department or organization. This milestone on Agility adoption (coined as „Organizational Agility“) maximizes some typical problems like the Leader/Manager roleContinue reading
Page Assembler and Microservices
MYTOYS GROUP is a great company since they give developers and architects – through the use of scrum, guilds and chapters – time or flexibility for own ideas. So anyone can start guilds to developContinue reading
Agile Poker Cards Update
Hallo myToysianer! Madrid Tech Lab has released a new version of the myToys Group Agile Poker Cards with a new deck type called PRIORITY which allows to prioritize your tasks from 1 up to 10.Continue reading