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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Difficulties in Creating Autonomy and Alignment Creating a performance culture of high alignment and high autonomy is not a one-time effort. When you focus on value delivery alone, you risk sustainability for the future.

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How to Scale Engineering Processes w/ Twitter's VP of Engineering

Dzone - DevOps

She joins a special livestream of the Dev Interrupted podcast to share her career journey, her strategies for sustainably scaling engineering teams and the three pillars of engineering processes. Maria was a fantastic guest, sticking around after her interview to take questions from the audience.

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Independent, Involved, Informed, and Informative: The Characteristics of a CoPE

Honeycomb

As our Field CTO Liz Fong-Jones says , production excellence is important for cloud-native software organizations because it ensures a safe, reliable, and sustainable system for an organization’s customers and employees. These two correlated aspects make the CoPE a supremely helpful advisor to frontline teams and organizational leadership.

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

The case for DevOps leadership. DevOps represents a change in IT culture. DevOps transformation is a symbiosis between top-down leadership commitment and bottom up change from the team level. Within IT, DevOps answers the global call for organizational transformation. How do we bring this to life? Olivia Taglich. Consultant.

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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

Adjust work so that people feel comfortable and confident running our systems, propagate good practices, and ensure we do these things sustainably. Think of: Urban planners ’ roles around public consultation, transportation management, sanitation infrastructure, and sustainable growth.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small.

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