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Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations

There's a worrying trend towards focusing on specialisms at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility and valuable outcomes, which can take teams away from multi-disciplinary collaboration. This article calls out three collaboration anti-patterns that appeared in more than one organisation, some of the symptoms they cause and some thoughts on how to go about counteracting them.

Emily Webber
on Sep 21, 2023
Architecture & Design

Domain-Driven Cloud: Aligning Your Cloud Architecture to Your Business Model

Domain-Driven Cloud (DDC) is an approach for creating your organization’s cloud architecture based on your business model. Based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and the architecture principle of high cohesion and low coupling, this article introduces DDC including the technical and human benefits of aligning your cloud architecture to the bounded contexts in your business model.

Ryan Shriver Chris Belyea
on Sep 15, 2023 4
Culture & Methods

Why Developers and Staff+ Engineers Should Get Involved in Open-Source Collaborative Development

Over the last 30 years, the world has become connected and digital. Open source is how we do modern software development, stitching together downloaded open-source libraries, frameworks, and other code to create new applications or functionality. This is why every developer and senior staff+ roles need to know what open source is and how it works.

Nithya Ruff
on Sep 15, 2023
Culture & Methods

Managing the Carbon Emissions Associated with Generative AI

There’s an increasing concern about the energy use and corresponding carbon emissions of generative AI models. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life. Factors such as model architecture, transparency and quantization of models are required to decrease carbon emission from AI systems.

Jesse McCrosky
on Sep 01, 2023
Culture & Methods

Reducing Verification Lead Time by 50% by Lowering Defect Slippage and Applying AI/ML Techniques

Can we increase our flexibility? Can we increase our test coverage? Can we increase our efficiency? And is it possible to reduce our verification lead-time by 50%? One company challenged itself with these questions. This article explores two important “‘pillars”’ of their testing strategy: shifting left and using state-of-the-art techniques to support verification activities.

Paul Derckx
on Aug 21, 2023
Culture & Methods

Becoming More Assertive: How to Express Yourself, Give Feedback, and Set Boundaries

Do you know that feeling, when you are brave enough to say ‘NO’ and then you don’t feel comfortable about it? This article provides a proper understanding of what an assertiveness skill is. You will learn how to identify the communication skills we need to work on to become more assertive, and get information about the characteristics and skills of assertive people.

Marta Firlej
on Aug 16, 2023 1
Architecture & Design

Evolving the Federated GraphQL Platform at Netflix

This article describes the journey of the migration towards a Federated GraphQL architecture. Specifically, it shows the GraphQL platform Netflix has built consisting of the Domain Graph Services framework for implementing GraphQL services in Java using Spring Boot and graphql-java, and tools for schema development. It also describes how the ecosystem has evolved at various stages of adoption.

Kavitha Srinivasan
on Aug 14, 2023
Culture & Methods

How Emotional Connections Can Drive Change: Applying Fearless Change Patterns

When trying to bring innovation into an organization, communication is important. It is vital to share information in a clear and logical way, but it is just as important to understand and accept how people are feeling about the innovation. To do this, leaders can make use of strategies that help them create an emotional connection.

Mary Lynn Manns
on Aug 09, 2023
Culture & Methods

Engineering as Art: Embracing Creativity beyond Science

Achieving a staff+ engineering role is a considerable achievement that many engineers seek as the next step in their career growth. In this article, we’ll discuss the challenges that staff+ engineers can face and how our struggles are similar to those of artists. Specifically, we’ll look at the parallels between creating art, creating software, and dealing with organizational dynamics.

David Grizzanti
on Aug 04, 2023
Culture & Methods

Actionable Green Choices for Your Software, Your Products, and You

Climate change is no longer just a huge worry cloud hanging over our heads. There are solutions, choices, and actions we can take - for ourselves, our children, and the future. This article gives you information about some of those choices: some bare glimpses into the art of the possible; others are tried and tested methods with known outcomes.

Joanna Masraff
on Jul 27, 2023 1
Architecture & Design

Enhancing Your "Definition of Done" Can Improve Your Minimum Viable Architecture

A Definition of Done describes the criteria that determines whether a software product is releasable. While normally focused on functional aspects of quality, teams can strengthen the quality and sustainability of their products if they expand their DoD to include architectural considerations.

Pierre Pureur Kurt Bittner
on Jul 19, 2023
Culture & Methods

IDEA: a Framework for Nurturing a Culture of Continuous Experimentation

For a team to be agile, they need a culture that allows them to learn, unlearn, and relearn. This article explains how teams can foster such a culture, navigate through the complexities of modern development environments and harness agility to deliver software quickly that fits the needs of users and business sponsors. It describes a framework to explore, plan, implement and evaluate ideas.

Sarah Aslanifar
on Jul 18, 2023