Tag: team

Our release strategies and CI Qonto’s Web team consists of 60 engineers delivering fantastic improvements and features to our customers on a daily basis. We provide multiple ember apps for different experiences; on the biggest app, customers can manage transactions, order new cards, create ...

I should be ashamed of myself. I have reached an age and am in a position where I should not be saying I’m ill when I’m not. It’s not cool to drop your colleagues into trouble. You should take on your share of the burden of work. Not lie. Be your best self. Last week I did ...

Workplace appropriate Icebreakers for your next virtual team building activity Fun icebreakers with Ricotta Trivia on Slack! With companies increasingly opting for their employees to go remote, managers and human resource teams face new challenges: How to create a fun work atmosphere ...

Having productive teams is crucial for the success of any organization. However, with constant distractions and shifting priorities, it can be challenging to maintain focus. As a leader, it is your responsibility to implement systems that enable your team to perform their best work. Apply these 8...

‘I’m so disappointed,’ said one of my CEOs as their opening statement in a conversation last week. ‘My exec team are just not stepping up the way they need to, the way that I need them to. I’m getting really frustrated. Not only that, the board is also startin...

Finding the time and space to renew your team’s energy and focus on the big picture is vital for creating your team leadership strategy and plan for the future. If your team needs a PASS (a Plan, Accountability, Space and Support) so you can all get your energy, focus, plan, and g...

When was the last time you paused to survey how things were going? We’ve crafted a three-part leadership-level survey to help reflect on your team, the company, yourself, and what you’d like to see more of. Give yourself a block of time to journal or work through these questions. Then, t...

Someone once said, “If both of us think exactly alike, one of us is unnecessary.” We all know that any given project, or product development effort, requires a variety of skills sets and experience — behold the cross functional team. But beyond that, our inclination is to put pe...

How do you get the best out of yourself? I’m willing to bet it isn’t to put yourself down, scare yourself, or shout in the mirror. So why is there still a body of thought that recommends ruling others with an iron fist? Is it effective, despite what logic may imply? It’...

A longer TL;DR answer — The use of story point estimation is situational. Not every team benefits from a process as heavy as point-based estimation. Points are used to keep a team accountable for what they are meant to deliver and their velocity for delivery. Examine Your Situation Wheth...

Kaizen, which I understand to roughly mean “good change,” is a concept that favors small, continual improvements over large, sweeping overhauls. The philosophy is that small changes, applied consistently over time, can yield extraordinary results in quality and efficiency. Kaizen...

Check-in meetings are what they sound like. They consist of leadership or management checking in with a specific person or team about the status of an existing project, challenges and learnings. Check-in meetings can help confirm all progress on a company initiative or project and maintain the mo...

“I have so much work, but my calendar is packed with meetings today, making it difficult to find time for actual progress.” “It’s Friday, and I haven’t made any progress this week because my schedule was filled with meetings.” “I feel overwhelmed; I ...

Despite the fact that Elmo did not win in the last British election, we should not forget about him and use him for another purpose. Or rather instead of saying “him”, I should say “it” because in this case I mean E.L.M.O. as an acronym for “Enough, Let’s Mov...

How did you feel the last time someone told you, “org charts don’t matter?” I have almost always heard that phrase in conjunction with some form of cross-team project or collaboration. When there is a equity — diversity, opportunity, and equality — in the workplace, ...

The UXUY team turned up in Europe for the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference on October 13, 2023. It was on this same day that the team released the Bitcoin Lightning Network node, becoming the world’s first DEX to run a Lightning Network node. Bitcoin Amsterdam is Europe’s larg...

This summer, while living with 7 other people in a biotech hacker house in Cambridge, MA, I interned on the Machine Learning Research team at Dyno Therapeutics! Dyno is a startup aiming to design gene therapy vectors using machine learning. Using machine learning and high-throughput&n...

Team building is a crucial aspect of nurturing a successful and cohesive workforce. In Dubai, a city known for its innovation and luxury, team building activities take on a unique and exciting twist. Desert Adventure Challenge Take your team on an unforgettable desert adventure ...

What is the purpose of your role as Velocity Program Manager: As the Velocity Program Manager, I take 60+ early stage startup founders a year through our pre-accelerator, helping them find their feet in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and start to build the skills and connections they’ll...

In the dynamic and ever-evolving world of the branding and marketing, diversity is not just a buzzword — it’s a strategic advantage. As the CEO of a 13-year-old, women-owned gamified graphics business with a staff of 8 talented women spread across 5 countries, I’ve learned firsthan...

If you want to attract the best software engineers, offer a work environment that constantly challenges them to learn and grow both professionally and personally. Expose engineers to a wide array of technologies, let them explore and narrow down their interests, and always allow for a change of cour...

Inclusion and diversity have become important pillars of the modern workplace. Companies around the world are striving to build more diverse teams. They do it not only because it’s a social responsibility, but because workplace diversity has an important role to play in team collaboration as w...

According to a study on culture and motivation, play, purpose, and potential are 3 of the top 6 reasons people work. We think that hiring through Applied has a positive impact on the three simply by how the Applied Sift works. Working remotely has made people feel further away from their tea...

No designer should have to work alone. It’s the team that helps them grow and evolves as a whole. A team with a right mix of skills and cultures brings along nuance of perspectives. It was around 2015 when the number of projects I could put up on my portfolio started to decline. It took me som...

I came out in 2000 aged 17 having played all sorts of sports throughout my teens. Due to a serious ear infection that caused me to lose a section of my inner ear I am was left unable to play any form of sport that left my head unprotected. When I went to university in the UK in the autumn of 2000 I ...

The FBI is known for a great many things but most often people associate it with large-scale, high-profile criminal investigations involving serial killers or terrorist threats. While the FBI does deal with those cases, they have a number of teams that span a wide breadth of criminal investigat...

Burnout is a stress-related state of emotional, physical, or mental exhaustion. It occurs when the demands of a job are more significant than a person’s ability to manage them. Change projects contain environmental factors that can lead to team burnout, such as long hours, strict deadlines, an...

If you’re a designer, find a good business partner — and if you’re a businessperson, find a good designer. No one can do it all and neither should you. It’s better to focus on your strengths than to do everything half-assed. So, what competencies do you possess and what do yo...