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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. Equally, it requires people who enjoy constructively reviewing and providing feedback. It requires people who are open to receiving and seeking out feedback on their ideas.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. At the heart of the model are the purpose, strategy and goals that drive the organization’s performance. The most important is that employee ownership and engagement in executing the organization’s strategy can grow significantly.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

In other words, the goal is to understand an organization from the inside so well that the group can engage in constructive criticism. Collecting this information up front is crucial because it will inform the development of a twinned strategy involving both passive and active tactics.

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On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

Honeycomb

It’s related to something cognitive engineers call the context gap. In short, all solutions and strategies we have to solve a problem are contextual and depend on the environment and situation you’re in. The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems.

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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. They are giving some constructive feedback. And people are thanking me for working on that.

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