Software Development🧑‍💻
This agile framework organizes work into short, time-boxed sprints.
What is Scrum?
A biotech company best known for therapies targeting rare genetic diseases.
What is BioMarin?
A Japanese pharmaceutical company with a strong focus on oncology.
What is Daiichi Sankyo?
Devices like smartwatches that track steps, heart rate, and sleep.
What are wearables?
Works on your machine, fails everywhere else.
What is environment mismatch?
The version control system used by almost every modern dev team.
What is Git?
The most common form of dwarfism.
What is achondroplasia?
City where Daiichi Sankyo is headquartered.
What is Tokyo?
The feature users love on day one and ignore by week three.
What are push notifications?
The real meaning of “quick fix.”
What is technical debt?
Practice where code is automatically built and tested on every commit.
What is CI/CD?
BioMarin’s first approved therapy designed to treat achondroplasia.
What is Voxzogo?
Daiichi Sankyo’s ADC platform is often described using this phrase: high potency with controlled delivery.
What is precision oncology?
The biggest reason health apps fail to change behavior long-term.
What is poor engagement?
Person who says “just one small change.”
Who is the stakeholder?
Architecture style where applications are split into small, independent services.
What are microservices?
Unlike surgery, Voxzogo aims to address this underlying cause of achondroplasia.
What is the genetic driver of impaired bone growth?
Global pharma company collaborating with Daiichi Sankyo on oncology drugs.
What is AstraZeneca?
The app design principle that reduces friction so users don’t give up.
What is good UX?
The phase where confidence peaks right before production.
What is pre-release optimism?
Writing servers, networks, and environments using configuration files instead of clicking in a UI.
What is Infrastructure as Code?
The age group Voxzogo is primarily indicated for, where growth plates are still open.
What are children?
Daiichi Sankyo’s core oncology technology that links antibodies to potent payloads.
What are antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs)?
The moment a health app stops being “nice to have” and becomes part of care.
What is clinical integration?
The reason nobody touches that part of the codebase.
What is legacy code?