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Few weeks ago, Portugal was targeted by hackers and a large newsgroup was hacked – or better, erased -, another one was disrupted and a critical infrastructure provider…
It feels like everyone in technology have a hobby nowadays! From what I’ve seen on pretty much of the social networks, it’s quite trendy to have a side…
It’s been over 2 years of covid and back to work is on everyone’s mind, coffee machines are being warmed up, desks moved and emails being fired asking…
At the beginning of the last decade I was lucky enough to work for one of the largest communication and PR companies in Portugal, where I learned a…
For those who have been following me for years, know that I’m a big fan of Alexa – the voice assistant from Amazon. Not only a fan, but…
Predicting something in today’s day and age is quite hard. Specially because times are fast changing and tech is moving at warp speed. For this year, my three…
I’ve been a drone pilot for some time now. Since my Phantom 3 and now with my Mavic Zoom 2 – which I love it! I have already…
2021 was the year where we got the best performance per watt CPU on the market: the apple M1. But it was also the year that Intel got…
There is a psychological model by which it describes the steps humans take when they interact with computer systems. This model can be used to help evaluate if…
There are lots of reasons for people and business to choose you, your work, product or services, over other available options and competitors, but it’s your ability to…
We all love buzzwords! Especially security folks that for the past decade found ways to bring design and marketing together. Just look at the ransomware designs, or logos…
The Timex Sinclair 2048 was my first computer, ever. It’s the reason why I work in technology and why I do indeed love so much this world, even…
There are some things in life that this pandemic changed, for sure and in a way that we’re still to understand. Tech Talks London is a show that…
Is really event driven architecture a buzz or actually a new idea? Indeed, it’s not something new. From complex event processing to the hardware interrupts of the UNIVAC, computers have been…
No code? No worries! That’s how many of the no-code or even low-code platforms marketing themselves. But the purpose of no-code platforms is to make things easier for…
All these new microservice-based architecture became a standard for designing a modular scalable software architecture. You will face, at certain moment of growth, challenges of splitting monolithic applications…
We are currently in a world where friends don’t let friends build datacentres, where the cloud needs to be first and where serverless is the new gold standard…
Did you know that effective roadmaps can help an organization make deliberate choices about a products’ development? But either you’re writing or reading a roadmap, you still have…
We all know that most projects fail. Some of them even fail multiple times. But is there a way to actually reduce this rate and likelihood of failure?…
What is value? How do we achieve value in a product? These are some of the things people think when they talk about value products. But values are…
Agile isn’t something new. Actually, everyone in the industry thinks they do some sort of agile, even if sometimes it’s a masked version of waterfall. But one of…
Everyone today wants collaboration to work. It’s important then to ask the right questions or give space for others to ask them. Harnessing the skills and independent thinking…
The world now is quite complex, like it never was before. Not because only of the current pandemic, markets moving fast, but also companies have more complex operations…
Performance reviews are sometimes worse than filling timesheets. Not because managers have to do them, but rather because it requires an alignment between current company objectives, individual personal…
Agile, scrum, devops and all other abstract solutions are common terms nowadays in companies, startups and development teams. But the problem is that expectations are always set too…
2020 has been a very though year for everyone. From disrupting companies, life’s and families, the change that this pandemic brought is here to stay. This episode is…
For those following me here on the blog, might have noticed that I’ve been complaining about Dell lately. First of modern standby, then about the WiFi from KillerNetworking…
Most – if not all – Dell XPS model have a wifi/bluetooth card that comes from Killer Networking. As the name says, it kills most of your laptop…
In short, Dell is screwing around Windows Modern Standby (CS3) and with Windows 10 20H2 some power options are removed. So what we would do before with power…
Every leader wants to get the best performance from their team. In companies, the importance of learning on the job and continuous employee development can’t be overstated. But…
We are currently working remotely and a lot of companies are already positioning themselves as a remote first ones. So managers need to rethink the way they measure…
You can do dense documents, using the SMART goals, held weekly meetings, use a multitude of tools, but the magic metric in companies in my opinion are clear…
A lot of people talk about how tough it is to work with developers, especially if you come from a non-technical background. So on this video I’ll talk…
Influencers are the new QVC people. If you look at it, what we are now seeing is a new rebranding of the old days of telesales. And now…
Funny thing that a few years ago, I worked at a company that was using the mantra of “no ticket not task”, which lead me to write a…
There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products….
There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products….
There are few laws that contain some of the most influential ideas that the biggest tech companies use to run their operations, design business models, and build products….
When you do Agile, are you aligned to the methodology or just the tools and frameworks? Are you still on Waterfall and what keeps you there? And now…
What does remote working, no-code/low-code and abstractions have in common? They are both driving the software industry obsolete. And now about this…
When we state that the work we love with “not really working,” it propagates a belief that if we love it so much, we should do more of…
Lateral thinking involves a dialogue in which questions are asked to uncover more information in order to devise a solution. Which should be the base for all innovation….
After waterfall, agile and devops, the concept for enterprise software delivery is value stream. So to understand value stream mapping, we need to first understand what a “value…
Successful companies build MindMaps, not cool products. So, taking a problem to solution mapping, in a user’s brain is crucial. And now about this…
On the previous episode, I talked about the need of a platform product manager, but conducting empirical market and user research of innovative solutions, often start with a…
The other day I talked about product societies, but actually it’s better to build a platform rather than a product and you definitely need a platform product manager….
It’s been more than 3 months since covid lock down and few weeks after black lives matter. But bottom line, this has been a big bandwagon for companies…
Now About This, is a new series of videos I’ll be doing here on LinkedIn. This one is about how Apple is building an operating system for health….
It was in January of 2018 when I launched TechCoffee, as an experiment both for the Alexa Flash Briefings (daily news that you can pull up on Alexa)…