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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.

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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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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

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.

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

Strategic Tech

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. How do you go from event storm to product and organizational improvements?

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Outside-in Domain Landscape Discovery

Strategic Tech

You may find that other approaches work better for you, and in reality every workshop is different so you need to be flexible. The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops. The scope of the workshop will influence how many levels is necessary. This is a tricky problem for facilitators.

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Socracan 2020 Experience Report

Apiumhub

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.

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