It’s been a few years since the “Spotify Model” became the latest trend for structuring an engineering team. But, like its predecessors, the model based on tribes and squads has some pitfalls. How to structure an engineering team is a question that’s been covered at length, from the strengths and weaknesses of common team structures to a matrix of organization based on risk and scale to why you should choose your own model.

At first, learning software development can feel like being lost in a maze…like the weird, scary maze from the Labyrinth. You’re learning languages upon languages, equations and variables, time management and organization – it’s madness I tell you, madness!! But fear not! Learning software development in 2019 means that you have numerous tools at your disposal to help ease the transition from normal human to coding master. And the best part?!

Like all of our legendary GitKraken dev tools, Glo Boards is specifically designed to make developers and teams more productive. While Glo has always made it fast and easy to manage tasks and issues, we’ve taken it one step further. According to the 2019 State of Software Development Report by Coding Sans, more than half of development teams worldwide are using Slack to communicate during a project.

If you’ve ever created products that can be deployed in different types of environments, you know that it can be challenging to migrate between one and the other since the core architecture often needs to be very different. We learned this the hard way back in 2018 on Confluence, when a large number of customers trying to migrate from server to cloud were having problems. It was a challenging, prone-to-failure process that required a lot of attention and preparation from site admins.

Over the last decade, remote work has entered the mainstream. Not only does remote work improve work-life balance and increase productivity, it also saves money and lets companies hire from a much wider talent pool. Due to this confluence of factors, it’s probably not too surprising that the majority of engineers now embrace working remotely.