Build Stuff 2017

Why do we still choose workplaces that drain us from all our energy between 9-to-5 leaving us with a paycheck, but zero energy left for the things that matter most, our health and our private life? In today's increasingly demanding IT workplaces the balance seems to have shifted to far to the work part of the work-life balance. At Macaw, we realize that the only thing that makes us successful are the hearts and minds (the Passion) of our employees. We also have to face the fact that can not lighten the challenges and demands that are put on our employees by our customers, by their own private challenges, their social environment or themselves (being the ambitious high achievers that they are). But we sure can help them learn how to cope with all the challenges they face and be the best version they can be in a work environment that adds energy instead of draining it. I'd like to share how we created a workplace that you can leave after your workday with more energy than you came in with.

This is a story of two developers coming from two different backgrounds with a single goal to improve both technical and managerial quality of a maturing start-up like project. We will share struggles we had to overcome being first developers on different physical site than rest of a team. We’ll tell what does it feel like to be a part of innovation hub inside a large corporate organization. And most importantly we will try to explain how in such an environment we solved technical debt caused by the mentality of a startup applied to the practices of software architecture.