Build and grow cross-company knowledge

By Anthony Figueroa • July 22, 2019 • 0 Comments

Culture is the way a company does things, its processes and values, and how it generates outcomes. It’s never easy to build, share, and promote knowledge across a medium-sized organization. That task requires leadership, rules, a strong culture, and having effective systems in place.

I’ve always been passionate about how knowledge sharing has a multiplier effect on the quality of what each person can deliver. I’ve seen junior developers, after a just few weeks, deliver higher quality work than what I could have produced years ago — even in a nonchallenging environment and even after years of experience.

Code audits

By Anthony Figueroa • July 5, 2019 • 1 Comment

An in-depth analysis of your system’s health.

For many projects, clients hire us to only run code audits. In other cases, we inherit legacy code, and going through a code audit is a requirement for working with us.

With time and repeated experience, we refined and strategized our audit process. It’s now a distinct work product that we offer to clients on its own.

As said, we often get projects that were created by other teams — sometimes in-house techs and sometimes offshore providers. In these cases, clients ask us to just take over the work or to only fix the problems. But we don’t work like that.

Availability Heuristic

By Anthony Figueroa • May 20, 2019 • 0 Comments

We are all blind — all of us. Even worse? We’re blind to our blindness.

We’re all victims to a wide range of cognitive biases that impair our decision making. But in my experience, the single most impactful cognitive bias that affects our business decisions is the “Availability Heuristic”.

Unfamiliar with the concept? We can reduce it, more or less, to a very simple phrase: “What I see is all there is”.

More formally, it’s this: we tend to think that things that come to mind quickly are the best representations of reality.

We can’t avoid it. It’s hardcoded into our primitive brain, which has to jump to conclusions fast and make decisions to survive.

Faster development has no shortcuts

By Anthony Figueroa • January 14, 2019 • 1 Comment

I’ve come across dozens of entrepreneurs and decision makers approaching our company because they want to increase development output. First and foremost, trying to increase the output is a huge mistake. Sometimes it can be useful for middle managers looking to be promoted, but it isn’t focusing on value. Outputs