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Never stop learning – Thoughts after four years with our epic team

Xebia

For most domains, for example Marketing, a budget should lead to a maximum result. Adding budget should hopefully provide more results. From a risk point of view, IT-budget should be addressed as budget to prevent catastrophes. Here is my two cents on why and how C-Level should embrace this.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

This is a big cultural shift! To help change the engineering culture, weve defined a lot of skills around communication and teamwork. A new engineer is expected to participate actively in team conversations. As a reminder, what Im trying to do here is to change the engineering culture at my company.

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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.” That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds.

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How culture and strategic partnerships help fuel transformation

CIO

So building a cohesive internal culture is integral to IT success, as well as achieving personal and professional goals. What supports our organizational strategy from technology is building an engineering culture, being customer-obsessed and outcome-focused, and simplifying and modernizing our technology stack.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences.

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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

No need to negotiate the proposed solution for any given problem with the budget holder. No long debates with other engineers about the envisioned solution. The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Great for our agility, but it also has consequences.

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5 ways to do Continuously Improved Testing

Xebia

If this is not commonly accepted as part of ‘Done’, you might find automated test cases become a thing at the bottom of your backlog that becomes hard to plan or get budget for. This results in a steadily-growing set of tests becoming part of the development cycle. When writing tests, it is good to stick to the F.I.R.S.T