RUG::B

In this talk, I look closer at the negative consequences of working with dis-empowered teams in what has also become known as the feature factory organization. I will show how the most innovative product companies of today seem to work very differently and talk about two examples from my personal career that have been very eye-opening in that regard. With this talk I hope to encourage people with an engineering background to make themselves more familiar with “state-of-the-art” product management to help make our software product companies more successful together.

In this talk I want to share my experience in development of an integration testing tool for a search engine using RSpec.

Usually developers just stub requests to Elastic, then one spec checks that application has sent a request and received mocked data. But what to do if someone insists on covering responses from a real search engine with specs? I encountered several problems along the way, I hope this talk will prevent people from making my mistakes.

What’s it like to work on Open Source projects? They’re all the same aren’t they? No, they’re not - the longer I worked on Open Source the more I realize how different the experience is for each one of them. Walk with me through some stories that happened to me in Open Source and let’s see what we can take away.