Niko Heikkilä

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When to Pair Program and When to Go Solo

#pairprogramming#mobbing#collaboration#books

23.05.2021 ☕️☕️ 12 minutes read

Despite all the praise pair programming gets, it is not a silver bullet and we should carefully practise it to get the most benefit from it.

#career#recruiting#agile

09.05.2021 ☕️ 3 minutes read

Dear recruiters, don't talk to me about your tech stack.

#agile#mentorship#career#softskills

24.04.2021 ☕️☕️ 9 minutes read

Mentoring is sometimes seen as a practice reserved for experienced professionals while in truth everyone can and should start mentoring their peers.

#agile#processes#extremeprogramming#continuousdelivery

28.03.2021 ☕️ 6 minutes read

Are your features taking ages to deliver? Beat those long lead times by reducing the work in progress and increasing throughput.

#productivity#tools#opensource#golang

20.03.2021 ☕️ 4 minutes read

How organizing your day brings a sense of clarity and calm into this mad, mad world.

#productivity#writing#tools

07.02.2021 ☕️ 4 minutes read

A fully automated pipeline from raw ideas to text documents.

#testing#automation#frontend#productivity

07.01.2021 ☕️☕️ 10 minutes read

How we can improve the developer experience in writing tedious browser-based tests.

#motivation#career#autonomy#mastery#purpose

26.10.2020 ☕️ 6 minutes read

A take on autonomy, mastery, and purpose as driving forces.