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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer. The same applies to coaching.

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Article: Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. By Philipp Gündisch, Vladyslav Ukis.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture.

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Never stop learning – Thoughts after four years with our epic team

Xebia

If you add a culture in which we continuously help each other by focusing on what we can still improve, that sometimes can become a bit scary. ‘Out of our Xpirit-sight’ I started coaching computer science students from a university on Agile and Growth Mindset. Here is my two cents on why and how C-Level should embrace this.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Putting a benevolent dictator in charge has a different impact than an architect that coaches and supports the team in their architecture decisions. However, context matters here.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Putting a benevolent dictator in charge has a different impact than an architect that coaches and supports the team in their architecture decisions. However, context matters here.

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

DevOps represents a change in IT culture. Leaders need to be culture builders by carrying the mission and strategy into the team and creating goals. Build the core DevOps team : The core DevOps team must accelerate the culture transformation and support the Agile squads in their adoption. The case for DevOps leadership.

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