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Cross-Team Collaboration: 7 ways to burn money as …

In this series I share some of the learnings I made during...

Slack for monitoring.: 7 ways to burn money as a d…

During the past decade, I observed some disturbing patterns which resulted in...

Go & Typescript (Low abstraction tech.): 7 wa…

I wrote the first lines of code (Basic) 35 years ago. For more than two decades...

Kafka: 7 ways to burn money as a developer –…

During my career I made a lot of mistakes. And I have tried to...

Docker and Kubernetes: 7 ways to burn money as a d…

After 20 years of experience in software development organisations, I...

Microservices: 7 ways to burn money as a developer…

I have worked in the software industry for two decades now and over time, I...

Trends: 7 ways to burn money as a developer –…

During the past decade, I observed some disturbing patterns which resulted in...

Revenue Operations: The New Resilience Booster for…

Revenue Operations is a term that floated to the surface less than two years ago. Its early adopters were ...

Why work with external and interim employees

Every growing business reaches a point where the workload exceeds the available labour. More employees are needed and ...

Being Strategic About Product And Tech With Scenar…

I was introduced to scenario planning in 2007, I was fascinated and… didn’t buy it - too good to be true.....

7 Ways To Kill Your Business (As A CTO)

As an interim-CTO, consultant, coach and advisor I have a chance to work with a lot of companies. Being part of CTO-networks I hear about even more...

User Authentication With AWS Cognito: The Good, Th…

There are only a few things in software engineering I love and hate at the same time - most of the time it’s quite obvious and...

Should I Use AWS Cognito For User Authentication

I worked on many login & registration systems in the past 10 years. And one thing I can tell you for sure: ...

M&As – 7 Things To Look Out For

Going through a merger or aligning several companies under one brand umbrella can be tricky in any industry. In theory, ...

What Do You Want From Your Salesforce Dashboards?

Actionables! In other words, what you want your dashboards to do is to give the viewer a clear insight of what action to take today. It may...

7 Things That Should Get You Fired

There is a lot written about what behaviour could result in someone being fired. This post is a bit different - it’s about...

Why Can’t We Just Deliver?

Is this a question you keep asking yourself from time to time? Are you wondering why you can’t meet your sprint goals? Does pleasing your stakeholde…

The Path To A Lean And Lightweight Data Setup

Disclaimer: I’m not a data expert. My business is international growth. Data is usually the first challenge that I stumble upon when pushing for sca…

Why Your CRM Must Be Part Of Your Data Strategy

Short answer: because you want your data setup to be a game-changer. ...

Don’t Ask For Permission

There’s one thing that separates successful people from the rest: Waiting for someone to approve your ideas vs. doing things you believe are right. …

Level Up Your Home Office: My7 Tips For More Ergon…

Where do you go to do deep work? Most people don’t answer with “the office”. Due to the current pandemic lots of people are forced to ...

Culture – New Work Order

At Zeile7 , we consult all kinds of companies and add value in very diverse fields. We coach and mentor executives, help to define strategy, ...

Culture – Brains And Passion, Not Blood, Swe…

We believe, based on our experience and decades of research, that there is a type of culture, which provides higher productivity, ...

Handbook Of Manners: How To Behave In A Code Revie…

In most companies code reviews are part of the process today. In theory they help to distribute knowledge, ...

How To Become A Better Developer (Without Coding)

You want to become a better developer without more coding? You should read some books! Like forever ago I gave a talk ...

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