When working on a sprint with specific objectives and the need for quick functionality delivery that can be reworked later, it's important to consider the implications of your choices. While your scrum master and project team may appreciate this approach, it can lead to unnecessary rework for both you and your team.

Instead, how about designing your APIs once and forgetting about them? Here are some guidelines that will help you stay ahead of the curve, allowing you to relax and enjoy the benefits of remote work during the next sprint.

The appeal of a microservices architecture is undeniable. Microservices are highly scalable and resilient platforms that can maintain high throughput even if some of their partner services experience outages. The well-documented benefits of this architecture can, at times, result in extreme complexity in maintaining and extending the platform.

Healthcare in the public sector is beset with challenges ranging from limited resources, aging equipment and a revolving door of unmotivated staff and an overall demotivated team. This article is written based on my own experiences in two Caribbean countries. It showcases some key differences between the behaviour of staff in public and private hospitals in the region.

Brain Drain happens when a country fails to secure its most highly educated citizens leaving a vacuum of competency in several sectors. This is felt heavily in the ICT sector with a higher dependence on outsourcing outfits playing an increased role in staffing Caribbean organizations. Brain drain has a wide reaching impact on economies with more monies leaving the region and building other, more developed companies, that can retain and attract the talent required. It is proposed that a slight change of approach to talent retention may be beneficial to Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region.