Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

Engineering Culture 80

Engineering Culture Software Engineering Software Review Culture 80

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Alignment – instead of telling people what to do for both product features and product architecture, focus on getting teams to align to a common product goal. Engineering Culture that focuses on building Quality and Simplicity – build a Continuous Delivery pipeline that allows teams to deliver value independently of one another.

Agile 122

Agile SCRUM Coaching Culture 122

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Another hurdle to decision making is when technology leaders feel that the skills needed to deliver big changes don’t exist within the organization like the lack of DDD, architecture, or cloud skills. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture.

Weak Development Team 97

Weak Development Team Software Architecture Engineering 97

LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. In other words, a bazaar-style hardware architecture was vastly superior to a cathedral-style architecture.)

Software Review 91

Software Review Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Technical Review 91

Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

To me, this story is what DDD is really about: developing the design mindset of a modeller to drive product innovation and enable continuous delivery of value, involving frequent collaboration with domain experts. It’s the Share Pie story in chapter 8 of Eric Evans’ DDD book.

Software Engineering 52

Software Engineering Continuous Delivery Project Management Software 52

Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

As time passed the number of developers more than tripled, the breadth and depth of our use cases expanded, and our scale increased more than tenfold, the monolithic architecture significantly slowed down the delivery of new features. Delivery?—?A Productivity?—?Local

Serverless 91

Serverless Microservices Weak Development Team Media 91