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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. By Ramsay Ashby, Laz Allen

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Greeks to Geeks: What Plato Says About Bettering Your Team Culture

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Two and a half millennia later, we were now using the ancient basis for illness to describe employee personalities, and what we could do to better team culture in the workplace. Also, read: Keeping Culture Alive: What Recruiters Can Do While Hiring Remotely. Hippocrates, who? The Greek physician Hippocrates (ca. Interesting, hmmm….

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Your dev team lead is not controlling enough

Dzone - DevOps

Three phases of a controlling engineering manager. Every morning, I see the unfiltered thoughts of 1200+ engineering leaders as one of the community moderators in the Dev Interrupted Discord server.

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Metrics-driven engineering leadership: How to elevate the visibility of your distributed team

Netlify

Some leaders have attempted to gather metrics around velocity, estimation and other measures, but in many ways these numbers have fallen short. At Netlify, we’ve found that choosing the right metrics and focusing on the team rather than the individual can motivate the entire team to consistently deliver great results. Throughput.

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Skyscanner's Journey to a "Continuous Improvement" Team Culture

Speaker: Ramsay Ashby

Team metrics are in vogue, and there is no shortage of literature espousing the value of various combinations of metrics that will lead your team(s) to delivery stardom. They shared what originally took them down this path, including the signs that change was needed and the impact it has had.

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Forecasting 2023 Recruiting Trends With 6 Experts

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Mike: I wish I had the crystal ball for this, but I hope that when the market starts picking up again (rapidly I’m inclined to think) that companies will have to adopt more and higher levels of support for the employees as it relates to culture, DEI, and general happiness. Rado: Prioritization, team time, and environment management.

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Habits of Highly Effective Engineering Managers

Federico Cargnelutti

Metrics Customer behaviour is the key metric for business success. Metrics you can measure to improve performance in your Agile development process: Lead time. Happiness: Measuring the team’s happiness can help determine if the current work environment, team culture, tools and methods are satisfactory. Cycle time.