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Developer Joy: a Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity

In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, they explain how to reclaim developer satisfaction and boost output by embracing curiosity, minimizing friction, and giving ourselves a break.

Trisha Gee Holly Cummins
on Jun 04, 2025
Culture & Methods

From Code to Charisma: Emotional Mastery for Tech Leaders

In tech, leadership is about more than managing projects—it's about influencing teams and driving collaboration. This article explores how understanding the brain’s states—rational, emotional, and survival—can enhance decision-making and innovation. By mastering emotional regulation, trust, and psychological safety, leaders can empower teams to thrive and unlock their full potential.

Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
on May 13, 2025
Culture & Methods

InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2025

This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space.

Shane Hastie Charity Majors Ben Linders Rafiq Gemmail Craig Smith
on May 09, 2025
Culture & Methods

Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. But that also provides opportunities for engineers to invent and shape the role of principal engineers.

Ben Linders Joy Ebertz Pablo Fredrikson Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
on Dec 11, 2024
Culture & Methods

Reaching Your Automatic Testing Goals by Enhancing Your Test Architecture

If you have automatic end-to-end tests, you have test architecture, even if you’ve never given it a thought. Test architecture encompasses everything from code to more theoretical concerns like enterprise architecture, but with concrete, immediate consequences. Let's explore how you can achieve the goals you have for your automatic testing effort.

James Westfall
on Dec 04, 2024
Culture & Methods

Jump into the Demoscene: Where Logic, Creativity, and Artistic Expression Merge

The demoscene is a vibrant, creative subculture where you can use mathematics, algorithms, creativity, and a wee bit of chaos to express yourself. In this article, I want to inspire you to grab the opportunity to get your voice and vision on the table, and show you that the demoscene is not only for mathematical wizards.

Espen Sande Larsen
on Oct 30, 2024
Culture & Methods

Accelerating Technical Decision-Making by Empowering ICs with Engineering Strategy

Carta harnesses the power of a small group of senior engineers called navigators to bridge the gap between global strategy and local decision-making, using a written engineering strategy. Navigators replace a need for consensus and boost velocity by combining technical context, domain context, strategic alignment, and judgment to make engineering decisions quickly.

Dan Fike Shawna Martell
on May 22, 2024
Culture & Methods

How to Build and Foster High-Performing Software Teams: Experiences from Engineering Managers

Engineering managers can enable software teams to learn and improve, and help them move problems and impediments out of the way. In this virtual panel, we'll discuss how engineering managers support teams, what skills they possess, and how they establish alignment and foster knowledge and experience sharing between teams.

Ben Linders Olga Kubassova Michael Gray Hannah Foxwell
on May 10, 2024
Culture & Methods

InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - April 2024

The Culture and Methods trends report discusses evolving roles within teams, the way the staff plus roles are able to add value, the use and misuse of DevEx metrics, how remote work continues to evolve, a lack of diversity is still a challenge, and the need to move from climate change awareness to climate conscious software engineering.

Shane Hastie Jutta Eckstein Ben Linders Susan McIntosh Rafiq Gemmail Craig Smith
on Apr 09, 2024
Culture & Methods

Advice for Engineering Managers: Enabling Developers to Become (More) Creative

As an engineering manager, it is your responsibility to help facilitate creative thinking skills among the development team, but that's easier said than done. This article provides advice on how can you help amplify the creative thinking skills of your software development colleagues. We examine how different levels of creativity influence creativity and strategies to encourage creativity.

Wouter Groeneveld
on Feb 29, 2024
Culture & Methods

How to Deal with Complexity in Product Development by Using Solution-Focused Coaching

In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management. Integrating specific coaching principles can enhance the quality of your conversations by guiding dialogue to uncover actionable insights, foster trust, boost collaboration, and drive clarity in your objectives.

Alexander Giurca
on Jan 29, 2024
Culture & Methods

Navigating Complex Interpersonal Relationships: Co-Creating Deliberate Workplace Connection

As an employee or leader, you are in a relationship with each other and with the organization. You face the tension of traditional ways of working vs new ways of working in the call for more work-from-home policies, and more work/life balance. This article outlines the mindset and actions that can be taken to better navigate complex relationships leading to a more humanistic way of working.

Jessica Katz
on Dec 05, 2023