Articles

26 de May, 2024

The biases of the Agile Manifesto and Agility

The Agile Manifesto, published in February 2001, is 23 years old. It was essential for changing the way we make software. It was created and signed […]
9 de May, 2024

Continuing Education Program New instructors

After 9 months offering Gyaco’s Continuing Education Program in Product Management and receiving excellent feedback from clients such as Aurum, EY, Itaú, and Núclea, I realized the […]
18 de October, 2022

Should we have a dedicated bug fixing team?

Similar to the question about the dedicated innovation team, this is another question I’ve been receiving a lot in my coaching sessions, so its answer may […]
15 de June, 2021

Measuring and managing productivity

How can we deliver faster? How can we deliver more with the same team? Why do we have the impression that the team is slow? When […]
15 de February, 2021

Measuring and managing quality

In 2015, we decided to extinguish the Quality Assurance (QA) function of our Locaweb product development team. We had 12 QAs, some with a developer profile […]
21 de July, 2020

QA or no QA? That’s NOT the right question…

Back in 2016, I wrote an article about the reasons that motivated us at Locaweb to extinguish the QA function in our product development team. At […]
2 de December, 2019

The relationship between product engineering and product management

How should the product manager relate to different areas of the company? Engineering, UX, product marketing, project management, operations, sales, legal, finance, customer service, human resources, […]
20 de June, 2017

We can’t stand it, we need to rewrite everything…

This article was originally published in Portuguese in June 2017. I have heard this phrase several times throughout my career. Software developers know that invariably comes a moment […]
23 de August, 2016

Quadrupling software development productivity without increasing team size and without quality loss

I wrote some time ago an article about how to organize product development teams and about some changes we made ​​in the software development teams at Locaweb. Since last year […]