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We connect IT professionals with projects that match their skills, professional experience, and goals, then we offer a career progression program, delivered by in-house specialists - our People Experience Partners - to foster growth, motivation, and success.

02/10/2026

A 2027 initiative is on the roadmap. What would it actually need from your tech team?

Take a hypothetical example: a SaaS company wants to make enterprise customer onboarding self-service by Q2. Before putting a hiring number against it, a few questions help:

👉 What comes first? Perhaps mapping how enterprise accounts are set up today
👉 Which skills? Possibly backend and identity integration
👉 When? For Q2, some of it may need to start in early Q1
👉 What can the existing team take on, and what still needs checking?

The answers might point to a change in scope, an internal hire, external specialists joining the team or an external dedicated team.

That is the question we'll explore throughout October as teams prepare for 2027.

01/10/2026

56% dos colaboradores da KWAN são estrangeiros. Mas por trás da percentagem, uma pergunta mais difícil: como se mantém uma cultura forte quando ninguém parte da mesma referência?

Artigo de Raquel Gonçalves, Director of People and Culture da KWAN, para o Trabalho by Eco.

"Pertença não signif**a sentir que somos todos iguais. Signif**a sentir que não precisamos de ser iguais para sermos considerados parte do mesmo 'nós'."

👉 Lê o artigo completo em: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yLKFp0

30/09/2026

Queremos equipas autónomas. Até alguém tomar uma decisão sem nos perguntar. Talvez seja aí que a liderança seja mesmo testada.

Artigo de Catarina Monteiro , People Experience Partner da KWAN, para o Dinheiro Vivo do Diário de Notícias.

"Se uma equipa f**a paralisada quando o líder vai de férias, talvez não estejamos perante um líder extraordinário. Talvez tenhamos apenas criado um excelente serviço de apoio ao cliente centralizado numa pessoa."

👉 Lê o artigo completo em: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yJSvv0

24/09/2026

A team can ship one release with almost any setup. Shipping every quarter depends on something less visible: the people who built the context still being there.

The longer an engineer stays, the more they know about the system, the decisions behind it and who to ask. An avoidable departure resets all of that, and the replacement starts again from day one. 📉

Keeping people is not left to chance at KWAN. Every consultant has a People Experience Partner for the length of the engagement, someone outside the delivery line whose job is to catch friction early. Expectations that drifted apart, feedback that never reached the person doing the work. Things that turn into resignations months later if nobody notices.

That's how ~70% of the engineers we place stay with the client team, excluding client hires.

The full argument, with a checklist for each new role, is in The Shipping Season Playbook.

🔗Link in the comments.

22/09/2026

Fechámos os nossos KWANers numa sala durante uma hora. 🔒

Calma, foi por uma boa causa... Pistas por decifrar, cadeados por abrir e o relógio sempre a contar. Foi assim a última quarta-feira de vários grupos de KWANers.

O ponto de encontro foi o Game Over Escape Room, em Lisboa. Pelo que se ouviu no dia seguinte, a experiência teve direito a alguns sustos pelo caminho. 😱

Resolver problemas em equipa é o que fazemos todos os dias. Com as luzes baixas e o tempo a fugir, é outra conversa.

Obrigado a todos os que aceitaram entrar no jogo. Venha o próximo desafio!

22/09/2026

Fluency with a tool and understanding how it works are two different skills. The difference shows up the day the tool changes.

Victor Gutierrez, developer at KWAN, compares the framework era with what is happening now with AI, in an article published on DEV Community.

"AI is powerful enough for people to get impressive results while understanding almost nothing."

👉 Read the full article: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yvQbD0

21/09/2026

Your first PR gets read differently than your tenth.

Nobody on the team knows yet whether they can trust your judgement, and a big first change asks for a lot of that trust upfront. A small one earns it faster, and it limits how far a wrong assumption travels before someone catches it.

Before writing any code, read the last 20 merged PRs. They show how the team really works, from how big changes usually are to how direct the reviews get.

Leave refactoring for later. Code that looks odd often solves a problem you haven't met yet.

And end your description with what you're still unsure about. Reviewers read that as context, and you find out about a wrong pattern in review rather than three PRs later.

Full article on the blog: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0yt3nr0

18/09/2026

82% of data professionals use AI tools every day, according to Joe Reis's 2026 State of Data Engineering Survey. More than 1 in 4 still say fighting fires is one of their team's biggest time sinks. 🔥

The pressure hasn't eased either. The most common pain point in data modelling is the push to move fast, cited by 59%.

So if AI freed up time, a good part of it seems to go straight back into keeping things running and keeping up with demand.

We asked a similar question in our Linkedin recently. The few answers we got leaned towards fixing what broke and reviewing AI output.

We looked at how the data engineer's role is changing, and what happens to seniority when first drafts cost almost nothing.

Link in the comments.

Where did the time go in your team?

13/09/2026

O Dia do Programador cai sempre no 256.º dia do ano.
256 é o número de valores que cabem num byte. Uma data escolhida por quem programa, com a lógica de quem programa. 😄

E quem programa sabe que a parte visível do trabalho é a mais pequena. Uma tarde inteira a perceber porque é que aquilo só falha em produção. Um comentário no code review que evita um problema meses mais tarde. O cuidado de deixar o código mais legível para quem vem a seguir.

Nada disto aparece numa demo. Aparece no facto de as coisas continuarem a funcionar seis meses depois. 💙

A todos os programadores, e aos KWANers que passam os dias assim: feliz Dia do Programador.

08/09/2026

You've got a Q4 deadline. But how many weeks do you actually have left to ship?

Hiring, notice periods, onboarding and freeze weeks eat into the roadmap faster than most plans account for.

So we built a calculator that does the maths.

Enter your dates and ramp-up assumptions and see your real shipping window.

How many weeks does your Q4 actually have left?

Try it - link in the comments 👇

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