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When I decided to work at Grupo Esfera back in 2018, I did so knowing that I wanted to learn about technical agility. “I want to learn from what you do,” I told Diego Fontdevila (founding partner of Grupo Esfera) when he offered me a job with them. Nothing about that statement struck Diego as odd; in fact, during my first few days, he introduced me as "the non-technical person who is coming to learn from us, while we learn from what she knows." And I thought to myself: what c

When we started asking around at Esfera about how we perceived our own culture, many people noted that as an organization, we strived to be a benchmark for technical practices in this software and agile methodology space. We asked how we self-perceived our culture, and people mentioned product quality, flexibility in choosing the best technology for the problem at hand, continuous improvement, and agility, among other things. The truth is, being at Esfera conveys just that. B

Within the agile universe, there are strictly technical practices (such as TDD, BDD, test automation) and others focused on management (such as Scrum ceremonies). We can place DevOps in a space that cuts across both. DevOps is an acronym for Development and Operations, referring to the integration of both areas to build software products. Ignacio Raguet and Joaquín Moreno Fernandez—two Esféricos dedicated to implementing DevOps in organizations and training those who are inte

Have you ever had to delete end-to-end acceptance tests because your Continuous Integration became unacceptably slow? It has happened to all of us. Have you ever had to delete end-to-end acceptance tests because your Continuous Integration became unacceptably slow? It has happened to all of us. End-to-end acceptance tests are highly meaningful because they verify how the system is expected to behave from the end-user's perspective and in an environment very close to productio

In 2023, Grupo Esfera organized the first webinar on Transformation Experiences: From Leadership to Action, coordinated by Diego Fontdevila (founder of Grupo Esfera, executive coach, and university professor) alongside guest speakers Marcelo Vivanco (digital transformation consultant, former CTO, and psychologist), Federico Casuscelli (consultant and digital transformation strategy specialist), and Mariano Tugnarelli (computer engineer, developer, consultant, and software des

Let’s be honest… In today's fast-paced world, flooded with notifications everywhere and our minds packed with to-do lists, how many times do we truly listen to what we're being told? I mean, with full attention and a genuine desire to understand. As a Scrum Master and Coach, I experience this every day: we are right there in meetings, talking with clients, or engaging with the development team, and sometimes I feel like words just bounce off without fully landing. Does that f

The year 2025 brought us two major milestones as an organization: Grupo Esfera celebrated 20 years as a company, and we reached the 5-year mark of our organizational design based on sociocracy. I say "based on sociocracy" because I am not entirely clear on how much purity there is in our current structure. For 15 years, we ran multiple experiments, dynamics, and teams with the intention and goal of practicing self-management. We made so many attempts that I'm not sure we even