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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

When being part of an enterprise, you will meet different architects on any given day. Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

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.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

When being part of an enterprise, you will meet different architects on any given day. Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements.

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

By leveraging these contributions, consumers meet their needs, provide usability feedback, and enjoy ongoing enhancements. This pattern encourages the free flow of skills and resources, enabling teams to tackle challenges and complete projects swiftly while nurturing a culture of collaboration and knowledge exchange.

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Three practices managers can use gamification to drive enterprise change

Xebia

Changing hard controls, such as reward schemes and changing the organization architecture, are not always available for managers as tools to achieve enterprise change. The chances are that if you have achieved something for 85%, you will also meet the last 15% to claim the full reward. .

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

A few title changes along the way were useful backward-looking markers of progress, but they didn’t often denote major changes in scope beyond (usually) new meetings to attend. I wish I could call out specific milestones on the path, but the truth is it was done in a thousand small steps.

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Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?

Honeycomb

We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. Meet Elliott and Reid, two of our engineers that recently hit their 90 day mark. This time, we asked! Along with the title question, we also asked about their prior companies, how we differ, and what surprised them most about working here.