Jonathan Byerley

Alley Insight

Scrum Values and Community Values

Alley’s core company values of quality, transparency and accountability closely align with the values of Scrum and, more broadly, the principles of agile software development. However, recent events have led us to consider how the practice of Scrum also supports our community values – radical candor, psychological safety, asynchronous communication, diversity, and inclusion.

Alley Insight

Promoting Asynchronous Communication in Slack

Using Slack as a synchronous communication tool like Instant Messenger has plenty of downsides. Slack can be a source of constant interruption and context switching. How do you mitigate this?

Inside Alley

Remote Retreats – Team MOps Takes Portland

Team MOps, the Marketing and Operations team at Alley, headed to beautiful Portland, Maine at the tail end of summer. Find out what they did, and what they learned!

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You Down with ITP?

Building and keeping trust among web users is paramount to publishers and content creators alike, and many people feel betrayed when their web activity and private data are acquired by third-parties without consent. With the release of ITP 2.1, now on beta releases of iOS 12.2 and Safari 12.1 on macOS High Sierra and Mojave, both third-party and first-party cookies are affected.

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Team Retreats at Alley – Delta Goes to Washington

Since Alley’s founding in 2010, we have evolved into a fully distributed company with nearly 70 team members spread across the United States, Canada, and Brazil. While we’ve learned to mitigate the challenges of working remotely and pride ourselves on having a strong work culture, we feel it’s critical for everyone to have the opportunity to be in the same physical location and meet face to face.