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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. 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. Investing in design should be rewarded.

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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’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture. Associate Software Engineers Associate Software Engineer 1s are at the start of their career.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Each employee was expected to take ownership of their progression by providing examples of their skills. Software Engineer Software Engineers contribute to the work of their team without explicit guidance.

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Anything But Tech Debt

Honeycomb

For example, MEDDIC —or the variant I’m more familiar with, MEDDPICC. For example, for our customer-facing web application, we might set an SLO that 99.9% SLO isn’t important and we’re ok with reducing the target to, for example, 99.5%? of requests to our application should be handled within one second and without errors.

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Engineering excellence: the art of doing small things really well

Abhishek Tiwari

While reading the book, I had an interesting realisation that doing small things really well can also lead to engineering excellence. In this post we will look at some example of small well-executed actions. What is engineering excellence? An example ADR explaining why a team chose to use a particular database technology.

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A guide to personal retrospectives in engineering

CircleCI

This post was written by Stig Brautaset, CircleCI Senior Software Engineer, in collaboration with Cian Synnott, CircleCI Senior Staff Software Engineer. Retrospectives are a well-established resource in the software and systems engineering toolbox. Structure for personal retrospectives and examples.

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

Strategic Tech

finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. 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. Hiring is so hard?—?finding extremely well.