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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

In Accelerate , Nicole Forsgren shows a link between well-designed, loosely-coupled architecture and more frequent software delivery. 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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Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: R&D in software development

Apiumhub

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD).

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Codacy nabs $15M to improve code reviews with automation

TechCrunch

Code review is a key step during the software development process — it’s when people check a program by viewing and reading parts of the source code. But despite its importance, not all developers are pleased with the way traditional code reviews work.

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Article: Getting Rid of Wastes and Impediments in Software Development Using Data Science

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article presents how to use data science to detect wastes and impediments, and concepts and related information that help teams to figure out the root cause of impediments they struggle to get rid of.

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Using team sentiment and process health metrics to identify developer burnout

Allstacks

Because we know engineering wants to take care of their people, Allstacks has a whole set of features and metrics geared toward keeping a pulse on the team and supporting healthy engineering culture. Read more about the impact of Covid-19 on software development.

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I’m thinking about developer productivity.

Xebia

Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity? ” When I think about software development activities and their opportunity costs, I think of the choices we make on a product level. A development team can be very productive in terms of output, e.g., delivering several features quickly.