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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements. As a starter, we see architecture as a function. Do we need architects anyway? However, context matters here.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

Should the team not be able to make all of these architectural decisions by themselves? Organizing architecture guided by two perspectives. First-of-all, architectural scopes are not to be seen as static elements. As a starter, we see architecture as a function. Do we need architects anyway? However, context matters here.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. I believe that attitude towards the design of code and architecture is one of them. In orgs where it’s all about delivering tickets as quickly as possible or obsessing over technology, the culture and results are poorer.

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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.” The company is also leaning into more mentoring and coaching for existing staff.

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The Spotify Model of Scaling – Spotify Doesn’t Use It, Neither Should You

Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

When the original paper was written, they had guilds for Web Technology and Agile Coaches Guild. The pitfall is that it changes labels without the cultural and mindset change to go with it. Is this just another matrix model, the sort of thing that Agile coaches have been undoing for years? Spotify reversed this.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. I’ve hired several XP coaches to help, but even they’re stretched thin. I’m hoping this will help direct people to new behaviors, which will in turn start to change the engineering culture.

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Update on Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. They combine deep expertise in several specialties with the ability to mentor and coach less experienced team members. We rolled it out in July, so now’s a good time to share what we’ve learned so far.