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.

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Engineering Culture Software Engineering Software Review Culture 80

Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. 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.

Weak Development Team 97

Weak Development Team Software Architecture Engineering 97

Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

Teams should be organized around seven key roles: the DevOps evangelist, change and deployment manager, automation architect, pipeline architect, quality assurance professional, security engineer, cultural change lead. A DevOps transformation is only technical on the surface: the success lies within the people.

DevOps 52

DevOps Disaster Recovery Coaching Quality Assurance 52

LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 26, 2018

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness. Sessions & Workshops. Diversity Theatre.

Hardware 67

Hardware Engineering Software Engineering Culture 67

Strategic Tech

MAY 3, 2021

Mapping out your business’s domain landscape has many benefits: knowledge sharing, generating product ideas, providing the foundation for software architecture, aligning on requirements, but a common challenge is… “where do we start?” The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops.

Software Review 52

Software Review Architecture Systems Review Technical Review 52

Apiumhub

MARCH 10, 2020

Selecting better Open Space sessions. – Informing what type of session it is: workshop, presentation. This tries to set up a base understanding of characteristics that make up a healthy Engineering Culture. It’s just an analogy to explain the difference with an open space. What I learnt. CQRS/ES in sync mode.

Report 52

Report Conference Engineering Culture Programming 52