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Focus on Culture When Building an Engineering Culture
Sujith Nair explores why the clichéd “Engineering Culture” and related jargon need serious action beyond just boardroom discussion. Building an awesome Engineering Culture today needs more focus than ever. While there are no ready-made frameworks for building great engineering culture, there is a lot to be learnt from successful organizations.
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A View from the Trenches: the C-Suite’s Role in Organizational Transformation
The attributes of an Agile approach – flexibility, predictability, quality, and speed to market are priorities for all successful businesses. Why then, are organizational transformations a challenge for most? The answer often lies with company leadership and an inability to lead the massive cultural shift necessary for a successful company-wide transformation.
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Robot Says "Culture" - Moving towards Teal
Culture is something to be cultivated, something which will grow and evolve and must be cared for and nurtured. Most organizations today are stuck in an orange state of consciousness and culture. Let's explore the teal breakthroughs in self-management, evolutionary purpose and wholeness, and see how implementing teal-type working can lead to significant productivity and profitability gains.
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The Computest Story: The Transformation to an Agile Enterprise
This article explores how Computest followed their mission towards a self-managing organization. It explains the key drivers, how the journey got started, why Computest focused on value streams and how Computest aligned roles and responsibilities and applied Kanban to operationalize ideas. It also shares the lessons learned so far and discusses what this means for the next steps to be done.
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Tech Employee Job Satisfaction: What Can Data Tell Us?
Overall job satisfaction levels at some of the world’s biggest tech companies have been charted by Payscale against various employee metrics, including early career pay rate, average workforce age and total years of industry experience. The results make for interesting reading – but do they say more about the tech industry itself, or the millennials flocking to work in it?
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Building a Blockchain PoC in Ten Minutes Using Hyperledger Composer
This article examines what businesses look for when considering blockchain’s role in their organization and how the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Composer can help application developers easily create compelling blockchain solutions for the enterprise.
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Know the Flow! Microservices and Event Choreographies
This article explores ways to implement services which are long running and stretch across the boundary of individual microservices using event based architectures.
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Q&A on the Book Timing Is Almost Everything
Executives can and should get involved with the way that software is being developed. In his book Timing is Almost Everything, Roland Racko shows how you can increase software success by using a "management by query" executive style in the early stages of software development initiatives to influence how teams think and behave.
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Q&A on the Book Agendashift Part I
In the book Agendashift, Mike Burrows describes an inclusive, non-prescriptive, values-based, and outcome-centric approach to continuous transformation. He explores several lean and agile techniques that can be used in workshops and coaching to do lasting change.
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Culture May Eat Agile for Breakfast
Making culture your priority during the scaling phase of your organization is a sound business decision. You have to invest by hiring for mindset and educating everyone joining the organization in agile principles to prevent turning an existing agile culture into a traditional one.
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Serverless Takes DevOps to the Next Level
Serverless doesn’t only supplement DevOps, but it goes beyond the current thinking on how IT organisations can achieve greater business agility. It’s geared towards the rapid delivery of business value and continuous improvement and learning, and as such has clear potential to drive substantial cultural change, even in organisations that have adopted DevOps culture and practices already.
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Q&A on The Manager‘s Path with Camille Fournier
In the book The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier explores managing engineers and what it takes to be a technical manager. She describes the different roles which form the path from mentors and tech leads to senior engineering management, discusses the challenges of technical leadership and provides advice on how to deal with them.