After some years, Riblja čorba arrived in Ljubljana. As you may know Bora, the lead singer, said a few words about Slovenia when we were breaking off from Yugoslavia and a lot of people still hold that against the band. Still, over 2000 people made one hell of an ambient! So much so, that the band returned twice, and Bora limped on stage with his broken foot. Respect! Here's what I wrote for Delo.si.
I was part of the Microsoft layoffs in June 2023. While I was initially upset with it, and particularly with how it happened (though I can't share details), it turned out to be one of the more positive things that happened for me recently. You see, I was
This is the third instalment on building products at scale. Part 1 covered the backlog & refinement sessions, and Part 2 covered the planning. Now, let's get back to engineering, and discuss how to support the process. If you’re still following, what we have now is: * Regular
In this blog post, we'll cover an interesting topic that came up as part of my contributions to the Microsoft Disaster Response (MSDR) effort. With the Ukraine war, one of the biggest challenges for the rest of the world is displaced people. The Microsoft MSDR contribution provided some
In Part I [https://www.vodovnik.com/2022/07/08/how-id-build-products/], we ended up with a well-defined product backlog. Our Engineering Team can go into their Sprint Planning with a list of well-refined list of User Stories and plan their sprint. However, the Engineering team does not live in a
