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Article: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - April 2024

InfoQ Culture Methods

The Culture and Methods trends report discusses evolving roles within teams, the way the staff plus roles are able to add value, the use and misuse of DevEx metrics, how remote work continues to evolve, a lack of diversity is still a challenge, and the need to move from climate change awareness to climate conscious software engineering By Shane Hastie, (..)

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Article: Why Team-Level Metrics Matter in Software Engineering

InfoQ Culture Methods

In a world where everything can have perspective, context and data, it doesn’t make sense to limit that to just part of your software development process. The DORA metrics can provide insight into the health of your development environment, where value is being delivered and opportunities for improvement. By Ian Phillipchuk.

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LinearB to Provide Free DORA Metrics Dashboard

DevOps.com

LinearB's free dashboard allows users to visualize DORA metrics from within the company’s software delivery management platform.

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Article: Better Metrics for Building High Performance Teams

InfoQ Culture Methods

There is no agreed way to build and measure high performing engineering teams, let alone to track the success of software engineers. This article explores ways to support individuals and teams right from onboarding and identifies useful metrics which can help make performance factors visible and actionable.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I

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A Note to Business Leaders on Software Engineering

Strategic Tech

Software development is not an established discipline where there is a clear technique used to solve any given problem. In fact, there are near infinite ways to solve every software engineering challenging. The costs of entropy in software systems cannot be over-emphasised. This is natural, yet this is also a big problem.

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Is it worth measuring software developer productivity? CIOs weigh in

CIO

Gartner’s surveys and data from client inquiries confirm that developer productivity remains a top priority for software engineering leaders.” One big caveat of some productivity measurements is that some can lead to false positives, or cause engineers to game the system. “As