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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: Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2023

InfoQ Culture Methods

The two biggest factors influencing organisational culture in early 2023 are the highly publicised and hugely disruptive layoffs across the tech industry and the emergence of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT. By Shane Hastie

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Introducing a product delivery culture at Etsy

Martin Fowler

A second article exploring the challenges Etsy faced as it scaled up. Tim Cochran relates how CTO Mike Fisher identified problems with the product delivery process, built a cross-functional Product Delivery Culture team to analyze the situation, and began an improvement program based on lean thinking and the ideas of Marty Cagan.

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Article: How Skyscanner Embedded a Team Metrics Culture for Continuous Improvement

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article explains why Skyscanner decided not just to deploy a tool, but to think about this as changing their engineering management culture to being one that values and utilises metrics to drive greater improvement at scale.

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Article: Cloud-Native Is about Culture, Not Containers

InfoQ Culture Methods

At the QCon London last year, Holly Cummins innovation leader in IBM Corporate Strategy provided a session titled: Cloud-Native is about Culture, not Containers. In this article, Holly will discuss the role of culture in cloud-native architecture.

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Building Cross-Cultural Relationships in a Global Workplace

Harvard Business Review

Most of us never consider how culture shapes our expectations and assumptions about relationship building. But research shows that our cultural upbringing influences how we form and maintain connections with others — often quite significantly. They may even discover they have more in common with their colleagues than they thought.

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Article: Applying Genetic Engineering to your Organization Culture

InfoQ Culture Methods

Common barriers to transformation value remain people, mindset, and organizational culture, they are so significant that they can halt any transformation from achieving meaningful delivery capabilities. This article explores mechanisms for DNA manipulation to apply the concepts in the organizational environment.

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