Koru Kids Product Engineering

Koru Kids Product Engineering

We’re all leaders

We’re all leaders

How alternating the 'sweeper' role keeps us all a little sharper in every meeting.

The squad career plan - how we do continuous squad improvement

The squad career plan - how we do continuous squad improvement

If I had to choose between improving each member of a squad, or improving the squad itself, I would choose the squad every time. A team is greater than the sum of its parts, and so improving the squad will be multiplicative compared to improving each member. The problem is

🚴 Speed coding

If you have never taken part in a programming competition before, they can be a really fun way to challenge yourself to quickly write code to solve problems – and compete for the top spot, if that’s your kind of thing!

I finally converted to the weekly retro, and you should too

I finally converted to the weekly retro, and you should too

We’ve all read, heard and seen agile scrum leaders preaching the virtues of a weekly retro. Many of us, myself included, were not entirely convinced.

Rails console snoopery with Papertrail

Rails console snoopery with Papertrail

Keep an eagle eye on your fellow engineers in a Rails project 👀

Making Heroku Preboot Less Dumb

Making Heroku Preboot Less Dumb

Heroku's Preboot feature is great at enabling seamless deployments, but it was lacking a smoke test... here's how we made it work harder for us.

Mob programming with mob

Mob programming with mob

We’re big fans of pair programming at Koru Kids, we’re a remote-first team and we also love collaboration. This has led a few of our teams to try our mob programming and the mob tool.

Making remote work, work

Making remote work, work

I took the opportunity to go fully remote during COVID and haven’t looked back.

What is cocoa-pair?

Back by popular demand: this time our Content Designer gets into detail about why she loves Cocoa-Pair (and how it took us from 'we need a form' to 'it's live' in a morning)

5 ways to wake up your standups

5 ways to wake up your standups

Don't let standups go stale. The Childcare Development Squad share 5 experiments that worked for us.

What it's like to start a brand new career in ProdEng

Changing job is hard. Meet the people who dropped their entire career in search of new challenges, skills and wisdom. The Koru Kids career switchers talk through the journey - what's different, what's hard and why no one regrets a thing. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧Kitty Green - Product Manager

[Video] Cocoa-pair

The Childcare Development squad chat about our latest experiment: Cocoa-pair. A real insight into how we think and work and share ideas every day.