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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineering culture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. Provide Design Training & Coaching Training can accelerate the design learning process for any engineer or architect. The same applies to coaching.

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Article: Employing Team-Based Agile Coaching to Establish SRE in an Organization

InfoQ Culture Methods

This paper presents how agile coaching has been employed to run an SRE transformation in a 25-teams strong product delivery organization. Establishing SRE in a software delivery organization typically requires a socio-technical transformation. By Philipp Gündisch, Vladyslav Ukis.

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

Xebia

If you add a culture in which we continuously help each other by focusing on what we can still improve, that sometimes can become a bit scary. ‘Out of our Xpirit-sight’ I started coaching computer science students from a university on Agile and Growth Mindset. Here is my two cents on why and how C-Level should embrace 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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Thoughts on organizing architecture

Xebia

The character and way of working of the architect function has a huge impact on the engineering culture. Putting a benevolent dictator in charge has a different impact than an architect that coaches and supports the team in their architecture decisions. However, context matters here.