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Being an Ethical Software Engineer
Our lives are improving because of technology. Software engineering is one of the more influencing practices we have today that is shaping society, but it doesn’t look like the industry is owning this social responsibility. At the end of the day, it’s not just about being better developers, but rather about being better people.
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A Different Meaning of CI - Continuous Improvement, the Heartbeat of DevOps
This personal experience report shows that political in-house games and bad corporate culture are not only annoying and a waste of time, but also harm a lot of initiatives for improvement. Whenever we become aware of the blame game, we should address it! DevOps wants to deliver high quality. The willingness to make things better - products, processes, collaboration, and more - is vital.
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Cultivating a Learning Organisation
This article explores how creating an internal culture of experimentation and learning enabled a company to keep pace with the rapid iterations in tech that have become the regular way we do business. It shows that psychological safety is a key component of the learning organisation; employees need to be able to experiment and learn from any outcome - without fear that failure will be punished.
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How to Mitigate the Pain of Getting and Giving Feedback
Companies that encourage open and honest feedback do better than companies that do not. Nonetheless, giving feedback is difficult because social and physical pain share some of the same neural circuitry. Hence, feedback can feel physically painful, as Sarah Hagan discusses in her 2018 QCon San Francisco talk . Hagan uses scientific research to demonstrate how to give feedback properly.
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Q&A on the Book Elastic Leadership
The book Elastic Leadership by Roy Osherove shows how teams have a need for different types of leadership depending on the state that they are in and what can be done to grow teams towards true self-organization. It provides values, techniques, and practices that leaders can use in their daily work.
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Agile Anti-Patterns: A Systems Thinking Approach
Agile anti-patterns can disguise themselves as "solutions" or "workarounds". This article discusses the importance of recognising and classifying a new generation of agile anti-pattern with a systems thinking approach. It shows how to create and promote a shared language using value streams as an effective means of creating a systems thinking culture amongst agile teams and the wider business.
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Architecture with 800 of My Closest Friends: The Evolution of Comcast’s Architecture Guild
Comcast has cultivated an Architecture Guild, with the goal of "threading the needle" between obtaining advantageous critical mass around certain common technologies without undermining individual teams' agency. The Architecture Guild is a grassroots framework that has been used to cut across organizational boundaries to identify solid, workable, default recommendations.
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People Re-Engineering How To’s: The Magic of Teaming
People Re-engineering is a concept bundling whatever is needed to keep software people fit for their pressing challenges caused by merciless market demands. In one of its five threads, PRE formulates a platform for a more effective and vivid teaming process that enhances team productivity and wellbeing.
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A Simple Mindset Shift Turns Ineffective Teams into Productive Organizations
To help teams become more effective: #1 Develop and Use a Coaching Mindset #2 Respect Your Team As Experts #3 Allow People Doing The Work To Make The Decisions. To make rapid progress on developing a coaching mindset, learn about the Path to Coaching Program which has five modules: professional coaching, systems coaching, scaling, sustainability, and coaching leaders.
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MOOtopia – Adapting the Spotify Model at MOO
The Spotify Model may be a good starting point, but you need to adapt it to suit your needs. This is the story of how MOO has adapted the organizational structure within Tech and Product based on the Spotify Model, and has then evolved that initial design into something that meets their current needs.
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Supporting Mental Health in the Tech Workplace
Mental health is heavily stigmatized in our society. People living with mental illness do not want to be treated differently; they may need help and accommodation in specific instances. Nara Kasbergen shares her volunteer work for Open Sourcing Mental Illness: a distributed, volunteer-based, non-profit organization that seeks to change the way we talk about mental health in the tech industry.
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Q&A on the Book Inviting Leadership
The book Inviting Leadership by Daniel Mezick and Mark Sheffield explores how using an invitational leadership approach can increase employee engagement and self-organization. It shows how changing the decision-making process influences culture and can lead to lasting change.