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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There’s huge variety between those two extremes, and there’s also a point where too much focus on design and not enough on delivery is hugely counter-productive as well. Both valuing design and striving for continuous delivery are necessary. They prefer to work in isolation and just deliver. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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Turning Domain Discovery into Product and Organizational Improvements with a DDD Exemplar

Strategic Tech

Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. The final part is leadership. Different stakeholders usually assign different levels of importance to each of those needs, creating a conflict which also blocks progress on making a decision.

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Why is Hiring so Hard? How to Improve Your Hiring Fortunes

Strategic Tech

If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. The best thing is, this type of culture comes almost for free when you treat developers extremely well (as discussed previously).

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. Dramatic advances in software engineering workflow can be traced to the 2010 book Continuous Delivery [22] by Jez Humble and David Farley.