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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. 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. It can be a cost-effective approach.

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The Ultimate Model for Managing Performance in Agile Environments

Xebia

Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. Difficulties in Creating Autonomy and Alignment Creating a performance culture of high alignment and high autonomy is not a one-time effort. When you focus on value delivery alone, you risk sustainability for the future.

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Independent, Involved, Informed, and Informative: The Characteristics of a CoPE

Honeycomb

As our Field CTO Liz Fong-Jones says , production excellence is important for cloud-native software organizations because it ensures a safe, reliable, and sustainable system for an organization’s customers and employees. A CoPE helps organizations cultivate the practices and tools necessary to achieve that consistently.

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How We Define SRE Work, as a Team

Honeycomb

We are embedded in teams and we handle training, vendor management, capacity planning, cluster updates, tooling, and so on. For example, we used to have a full third of the charter dedicated to “ provide tools and assistance, ” a category I felt represented typical SRE work around automation and eliminating toil.

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

The case for DevOps leadership. DevOps represents a change in IT culture. It does this by combining principles rooted in transparency and experimentation with new technologies – particularly test, security, and deployment automation tools – and in the areas of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.

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Building strong distributed teams, one pixel at a time

CircleCI

When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. Combat hero culture and fix structural issues.

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2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Honeycomb

In March I wrote the following: Observability is a paradigm on which we can build a safe, healthy, sustainable future for the tech industry. One thing that stood out to me this year was how much our leadership team went out of their way to make sure folks felt taken care of. A small change with ripple effects.