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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

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. I love pair programming and mobbing because every small decision is debated and challenged. So we need to make it part of everything we do.

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Continuous learning gives U.S. Bank a technology talent edge

CIO

Bank over the years is that effectively deploying and making use of new tools requires a skilled and diverse workforce and a technology team with a strong engineering culture to support it. We’re also able to use the information to help us measure impact and provide insights on new trainings we may need to meet a common skill gap.

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3 keys to boosting your engineering culture

CIO

Bridging the gap between vision and execution in the effort to create a robust, engaged engineering workforce depends heavily — though not solely — on culture. So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. We’re introducing a lot of cutting-edge software development practices, such as self-organizing vertically-scaled teams and Extreme Programming. Culture doesn’t change easily. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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Kafka Summit London 2019 Session Videos

Confluent

170+ people trained. Keith Davidson (Director of Group TV Distribution Platforms, Sky) told us how to “Grow a Great Engineering Culture with Apache Kafka.” Finally, we made an announcement that was near and dear to my own heart: the Confluent Community Catalyst Program is now accepting nominations. 3 keynotes.

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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media.

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Establishing and Enabling a Center of Production Excellence

Honeycomb

These include running regular training and enablement sessions like Lunch & Learns, publishing a newsletter, advising on or collaborating on custom instrumentation libraries, and supporting the general observability toolset. That light touch frees them to sprinkle in more targeted interventions.