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Author Q&A: From Hierarchy to High Performance

In a new book From Hierarchy to High Performance, the authors provide a series of essays designed to help “Unleash the Hidden Superpowers of Ordinary People to Realize Extraordinary Results”. The premise of the book is that the management structures and employee engagement systems that most organizations apply are not (may never have really been) relevant and useful for the 21st century.

Shane Hastie Doug Kirkpatrick
on Oct 29, 2018
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Emotional Science

The book Emotional Science by Michael K Sahota and Audree Tara Sahota provides an understanding of emotions, which, as stated by the authors, goes beyond current models in psychology. The book provides exercises that can be used to become aware of emotions and learn how to deal with them, which is a practical way of increasing your Emotional Intelligence.

Ben Linders Audree Tara Sahota Michael Sahota
on Sep 14, 2018
Culture & Methods

Culture and Diversity - Why They Belong Together in Every Tech Organization

Culture and diversity can help a company’s bottom line, so it’s not surprising that organizations and their executive boards are focusing on ways to encourage inclusion. This article will look at specific benefits of diversity, and ways to encourage inclusion, essentially by allowing multiple voices to share in the story of the company.

Susan McIntosh Manny Segarra III
on Apr 21, 2018
Culture & Methods

Engineering Culture and Methods InfoQ Trends Report - January 2018

At InfoQ we regularly revisit the topics we focus on based on the technology adoption curve. This article provides a view of the topics we see as being important to the community at the beginning of 2018. Some new topics have appeared since 2017 and there have been some significant shifts in what matters to individuals, teams and organisations over the last year.

Rui Miguel Ferreira Rafiq Gemmail Ben Linders Susan McIntosh Craig Smith Shane Hastie Charles Humble
on Jan 23, 2018 2
Culture & Methods

Soft Skill Patterns for Software Developers: The “Learning from Unintended Failures” Pattern

Soft Skill Patterns describe human behaviours that effectively solve recurring problems. The "Learning from Unintended Failures" pattern helps us improve the resilience of a system after a failure. The pattern follows 4 steps: identify a failure, quickly resolve any immediate impact, analyse root cause and system behaviour during the failure, and finally generate and implement improvement ideas.

Kevin Jackson
on Dec 05, 2017
Culture & Methods

Culture: a Farming Tale

Culture and diversity are major factors for performance of a company, and influence its long-term success. Impacts include hiring practices, career development and direction, productivity, creativity, communication, and results. This discussion identifies cultural elements and their influence on behavior and production, and how diversity augments performance and company dynamics.

Susan McIntosh Manny Segarra III
on Nov 07, 2017 1
Culture & Methods

Oldies in Tech: Hiring and Getting Hired

Denoncourt gives advice to older job seekers with tips on how to go about writing cover letters, filling out resumes, handling themselves in interviews, and preparing for difficult questions and coding assessments. Employers will change their perspective of older applicants and see the benefits of hiring sage programmers that are smart, love learning and have a track record of success.

Don Denoncourt
on Sep 06, 2017
Culture & Methods

Louda Peña from Thoughtworks on Making Diversity Normal

Following on from the awards and recognition that ThoughtWorks has received for inclusiveness and diversity, InfoQ spoke to Louda Peña about what it takes to foster a genuinely diverse and inclusive workplace in a global technology company and her own experiences being part of such a culture.

Shane Hastie Louda Peña
on Aug 02, 2017 1
Culture & Methods

How to Communicate Better in Distributed Teams

In this article, Hugo, Arjan and Savita explain how their distributed agile framework can help distributed teams communicate better. Based on over a decade of experience, they share actionable practices that can help you improve the communication with team members across the world. Topics covered are virtues, trust, communication rhythm, retrospectives for distributed teams.

Savita Pahuja Hugo Messer Arjan Franzen
on May 26, 2017 1
Culture & Methods

Teams and the Way They Work

The terms “self-organised” and “cross functional” are often used to describe a team. What does this mean, and how will you recognise if your team has these features? Great teams work with the uniqueness of each person’s skills, experiences and outlook – forging the motivation to achieve a shared goal, within the constraints in which they operate.

Simon Reindl
on Mar 18, 2017
Culture & Methods

Developing Quality Software: Differentiating Factors

The level of software quality attainable is a reflection of an organizational business decision. There are many factors that influence this decision, including development, build and testing environments effectiveness, resources and their associated skillset, integrity, motivations and experience levels, commercial agreements, and adopted processes and productivity tools.

Cynthia Freeney
on Mar 02, 2017
Culture & Methods

The Top 5 Problems with Distributed Teams and How to Solve Them

In this article, Hugo Messer shares the top 5 challenges distributed teams face along with practical solutions. They are based on his 6 books, many workshops and a decade of hands on experience. The top 5 challenges: 1. We're thinking 'us versus them'; 2. Keeping the team in the dark; 3. Culture is a mystery; 4. We stop communicating; 5. The black box.

Hugo Messer
on Sep 17, 2016 3