From e5f69980f1d28b21cdd29b553aaa6d72666524eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom X Nguyen Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 11:13:52 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] chore: vault backup 2023-11-10 11:13:52 --- newsletter/What's new in October 2023.md | 112 ----------------------- 1 file changed, 112 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 newsletter/What's new in October 2023.md diff --git a/newsletter/What's new in October 2023.md b/newsletter/What's new in October 2023.md deleted file mode 100644 index 751b98d6..00000000 --- a/newsletter/What's new in October 2023.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,112 +0,0 @@ ---- -tags: - - dwarves - - work -title: What's new in October 2023 -date: 2023-11-10 -description: Updates across October 2023. -authors: - - nikki -menu: newsletter -toc: false -notice: Example disclaimer -type: newsletter -show_frontmatter: true ---- -> [!Before you dive in] -> Dwarves is operated as a 50% company, 50% community. Everything we learn along the way of work, we transform into knowledge and distribute back to our tech community. -> -> If you want to get in touch, visit [Dwarves Network](http://discord.gg/dwarvesv) - - -Each month, we release a recap noting all the significant changes with our company and our team. October's highlights include: - -- [[#note.d.foundation]] - The wiki of how we work, learn and operate the team at Dwarves. -- [[#New functional teams]] - A single core team expands into 5 functional teams for better delivery. -- [[#MMA-based career development]] - Mastery, Meaning, Calibration allows us the transparency in what we do and ways to provide growth paths for everyone based their interests. -- [[#Frontend Course 2023]] - Our free FE Course is successfully finished with a fun demo day. -- [[#Wrapping up Droppii]] - We completed our mission with helping Droppii build up their tech foundation and products. - -### State of Dwarves -For a tech team like Dwarves, there are only a few things that matter. Coming to the end of the year, we're reflecting and re-enforcing what matters to us. -- Cross-team transparency: we're bringing more documentations, reports, cross-team meetings so everyone knows what the others are up to. -- R&D: we are fueled by innovations, more hands are joining R&D to learn the next best thing in tech and programming. -- Diverse projects: we are now more open to whichever projects that can promise an exciting challenges, regardless of domain, scale, duration. - -## note.d.foundation - -We think of this site as our company wiki. It's where we note (hence the name) and share everything we learn as a team and as a community, knowledge-wise and operation-wise. - -![[information_flow.png]] - -With [note.d.foundation](note.d.foundation), we hope the time and effort we spent being in the tech industry will become valuable lessons and stories for everyone who also cares about technology and innovation like we do. - -Community members are welcome to share their learning notes with us too, by dropping a message in relevant channels in our [Discord](http://discord.gg/dwarvesv) - - -## New functional teams - -In October, we re-organized the core team into 5 functional teams with clear responsibility and deliverables. Each team has their own thing and they operate are all differently. Different ways of facilitating activities, creating team bonds, delivering results and getting rewards. - -- Labs: folks learning, researching emerging tech -- Consulting: folks using software to improve biz results -- Console: folks focusing on products -- Techie: folks enjoying celebrating humans in tech -- Ventures: investing in cool tech teams and products - -Once we can prove this new model is effective, we hope to onboard community members with the same passion in tech to join with us. - - -## MMA-based career development - -The only legit performance indicator at Dwarves is MMA; Mastery - Meaning - Autonomous. - -- Mastery: Are you highly talented skilled? Are you doing anything to become even better? -- Meaning: Do you work just for the money? Or do you have a purpose in the tech industry? -- Autonomy: Are you proactive? Are you a high performer? - -Since we adopted this model last year, everything we do revolve around it. Thanks to the consistency, we have been able to see improved performance, higher drive at work, more transparency across project teams, and more peeps expressed their interested in R&D activities. - -From there, we design a personalized growth paths, fit with their interest. With enough effort and grit, soon we will see the next part of teammates taking part in the 5 functional core teams. - - -## Frontend Course 2023 - -Our free FE Course is successfully finished. The stats are astounding, because comparing to our previous Golang Course, there is a 4x jump in participants. We believe this signal shows what we do is being well received by the tech community in Vietnam. - - -## Wrapping up Droppii - -When [Droppii](http://droppii.com/en/) first came to Dwarves, their products were built on an outdated tech stack and couldn't handle their fast growing user base. - -When we came onboard as a technical partner, we helped develop the tech foundation, shape up their processes, workflows and also participates in development. After 15 months of working together, we have completed our mission with helping Droppii build & run their own tech teams, and shipping 4 different products. - - -### Community Growth - -- Discord welcomes 2050 members in total. Lots of good stuff on tech being shared at #tech #til #random -- Top 10 voices contributing to our server get rewarded in ICY -- [Techie Story](http://techiestory.net) fanbase reached 8.8K members -- Elixir Meetup in Saigon was a fun experience for the team - -**Coming up:** -- Golang Meetup -- Techie x Webuild Summit - - -## FAQ - -**Q: Do Dwarves offer internship?** - -> Currently we don't have any internship position available. Dwarves facilitate apprenticeship and internship as a program, instead of individually. News about these programs will be updated on [note.d.foundation](note.d.foundation). - - -**Q: How can I contribute to Dwarves network?** -> Everyone can contribute knowledge in our [Discord](http://discord.gg/dwarvesv) and/or contribute to our [Bounties](http://earn.d.foundation). -> All valuable contribution will be rewarded in ICY ( 1 ICY ~ #1.5) - -**Q: Do Dwarves have any events?** -> We have the these reoccurring events: -> - Radio Talk (Weekly, Monday): sharing technical learning, demos, showcases -> - Tech Event (Monthly): sharing programming trends, tech trends, panel discussions -> - Community Call (Monthly): summary wins and growth of the month \ No newline at end of file