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At Cleo, we're very much about iterating on our agile process and finding the right approach for each team. As we entered Q3 of 2020, we significantly changed the makeup of one of our teams. The team was operating on auto-pilot since the change and was continuing to follow the agile processes that the team had been following in Q2. We noticed that the cycle times were increasing rapidly not long after, which set off some alarm bells.

The benefits of Typescript in a team environment for building and maintaining production-worthy codebases are nothing new. At Cleo we committed early to developing our web and mobile apps with Typescript to give us the safety of static typing when developing our product.

*Hold ourselves accountable to this in 2021

Careers? Levelled up.

I joined Cleo in March as a Backend Ruby Engineer, three weeks after I joined the UK went into lockdown and I was working in a fully remote team. These four approaches to working have helped me stay an active contributor to the team over the last three months of isolation.

...and not run out of wardrobe. Whether you're a sustainable fashion follower, a trend-setter, or just someone who loves a little bit of style, you've probably heard of Depop. And if you haven't, we're about to enlighten you on the modern way to buy, sell, and discover stylish clothing. Depop is like an Ebay for fashion, but with an interface like Instagram. It's a modern fashion marketplace app that makes it easy to connect both Depop sellers and buyers so that fashion is more accessible, inclusive, diverse, and less wasteful.

Everything you need to know, by the Cleo AI Data Science Team 💡