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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Case for Diversity in Our Workspaces
Dr. Sallyann Freudenberg makes a case for supporting neurodiveristy in our workplaces.
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Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2015
This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon London 2015 as blogged and tweeted by QCon's 1,200 attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including more then 25 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.
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DIVAs Weed Them out or Nurture Them? Five Best Practices
Your DIVA is eating garlic AGAIN??? At Qcon SF, Rob Cromwell introduced the DIVA: Difficult, Infallible, Victim and Arrogant; referring to insufferable geniuses. To help Rob and leaders & managers with coaching a great technical employee who has interpersonal and social behavioral issues, Michael Nir compiled FIVE best practical practices for handling the DIVAs. Find them here.
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Q&A with Nadja Macht on Innovation, Flow and Continuous Improvement
Retrospectives help teams to learn from their experiences and improve continuously. In this interview Nadja Macht, Flow Manager and Coach at Jimdo, talks about how to balance flow and slack time in teams, doing visual management with Kanban boards and deploying agile retrospectives for continuous improvement.
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Remote Working Works
Do you assume that remote working is a compromise? Around 5 years ago my team, and much of our software house, decided we could work as effectively from home. Many of us left London and headed to the country, replacing bars and restaurants with poultry keeping and mountain biking. Today we are closer, collaborate more, recruit better people and work more effectively than we ever did.
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Design For Hybrid Agile Adoption
Offshore Development is a critical success factor for many organizations as is adopting Agile methodologies. However, these two techniques have never worked well together. Overcoming this challenge, “Design for Hybrid Agile Adoption (DH2A)”, is a methodology defined to successfully execute Agile projects in a distributed and out-sourced environment. This article provides an overview of DH2A.