Oliver Schwarz, developer, agile professional and software architect near Cologne, Germany

Last month I went to Porto. It's a beautiful old town with everything you can wish for: Musicians on the street in nice and warm summer nights, so many sites and things to discover, easy access to a beach and a lot of friendly people to hear stories from. And the city is bustling. They seem to renovate and re-create their old houses and they invest into their infrastructure and education a lot.

There are a lot of tech companies there already. I find it inspiring to see a city waking up like this. It's surely great to live there for some time. If you are a student or just finished high school you should definitely consider going there.

I am actually on vacation. So I write this article in between 2 hikes through the mountains. Wherever you read this: Have fun!

Storytelling

Brands can be developed top-down and bottom-up. Christian Riedel explains what is the difference of approaches to develop your brand (German)
Here are 7 questions to ask to craft the perfect product story
Ever since I saw Marty Cagan on stage, he became one of my most inspiring resources. Here's Jon Moore and Marty talking about transformation

Development

Here is a great JavaScript resource
How do you do your code reviews? Dragan Stepanović comes up with a slide deck on why asynchronous code reviews may hurt your flow

Teams and team development

Maju Kuruvilla is the CEO of Bolt. In this twitter thread he describes how to build adaptable teams
Team Topologies is a great book on organizational structure supporting product development. Helen Sedlmeier writes about platform teams and platform-as-a-product (German)

Culture

The French Knight's Guide to Corporate Culture (Podcast)
Sometimes, you do not need to agree to a decision to fully commit to it. Even more, agreeing to a team's decision is a strength of high performing teams
Speaking of decisions. If you have not used delegation poker in your org you should start to. Andreas Diehl explains all about it (German)

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