Today, I want to share the crucial role team values play in creating a cohesive, efficient, and motivated team.

My name is Elena, and I work as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach. These are both positions that can be interpreted and lived completely differently depending on the company and the individual. In a series of articles, I want to provide insight into the work and interpretation of my role at Hausgold.

Are you looking to enhance your productivity and well-being while working from home? In this blog post, we have collected small, affordable adjustments that can make a massive difference in your home office setup. From the placement of your desk and the surrounding furniture to the lighting, colors and air quality, every aspect plays a crucial role in optimizing your workspace. Get ready to transform your workspace and elevate your work-from-home experience to new heights.

As you might know, some popular Ruby gems, like Nokogiri and Puma come with native extensions which back their features and/or their performance. These native extensions are usually written in C, just like Ruby MRI itself. But extensions can be written in other languages, too!

Have you ever worked with XMPP or ejabberd? First things first: both things are great! The XMPP protocol is very robust, extensible and well documented. ejabberd on the other hand is a scalable and easy to use messaging server which implements the XMPP protocol. And we extended it for our custom needs.

This is a recurring questions that is discussed heavily on the web. And from time to time this pops up in a every web designer’s mind. With agile development and scrum becoming the new standard for product design teams, designers and developers need to work closer together than ever before. That is why it is really important to develop a basic understanding of what the other part does – and why!

A good user experience is accomplished by satisfying the user’s needs as quickly as possible. Therefore you should aim for a minimal cognitive load or in other words: less is faster!