Insights and outlooks from the foobar universe

It’s a given that everyone in management today hears about team empowerment and self-managed teams and how good they are doing in an agile context. Of course, when hearing about the type of success others are having doing this, we immediately want to try it out, or you know, wait a bit then be pressured into it in some way or another. And when that happens, as we all humans do, we take a concept that we don’t fully understand and run with it. Either because we’re excited to get stuff done better and faster or because we have to. No matter the reason, we need to understand that there is more to empowerment than we might imagine. In this article, I want to touch on one particular part of empowerment - trust and the need to control or tidy up.

"Developers around the world" - with this series, we want to give you an insight into the lives of our foobar team. Developers today are much more global citizens than they used to be taking up new challenges and switching countries more often: a.k.a expats. What is the life of a developer like in another country? What experiences have fed the curiosity of discovering other countries? Which countries have they already nested in? The stories are individual experiences and do not consequently represent a whole nation. They are just a glimpse of how diverse the world is. Enjoy this little journey and step into someone else's shoes.

Lenilson "Lenny" Nascimento is a Software Engineer at foobar Agency with more than 6 years of experience 👨🏻‍💻. He is also a mentor at VaiNaWeb Brazil 🇧🇷. We wanted to know a bit more about the project and had a chat with Lenny 💬.

We fell in love with the "Kesselhaus" building older than 115 years, located in Aubing-Süd in the west of Munich. Now we were finally able to open up our new office! 🥳 It was a happy reunion and getting to know 🤝 old and new employees. Ready to conquer 🏰 the three floors with our growing team! 💪