This post was featured in Android Weekly’s #231 issue.
After having a good adoption of RxJava and clean architecture in our XING Android app codebase we’ve been lately considering about iterating more over our already implemented passive view…
Mobile is becoming increasingly important for companies that build web applications, and that also includes XING. Over 50% of our platform traffic comes from mobile devices. This in turn leads to a constant increase in the complexity and amount of testing work required on mobile…
In my last blog post I wrote about the 12th Agile Principle. In this blog post I’d like to explore the 8th Agile Principle:
The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face communication.
Considered as a rite of passage for all new hires to the company, the Agile Workshop (AWS) is a day-long induction into all things agile as they relate to XING. In my five years at XING I have participated as an attendee, and facilitated…
It’s not easy to see the creation of new teams as often as I have, especially when you work for the same company for several years. I’ve seen teams changing almost completely every year, without many new additions to the employees we already had, which…
I’m an agilist at XING and have been spending the past weeks digging deeper into the principles that back up the Agile Manifesto. This week, this particular principle has been screaming out for attention:
At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become…
