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Martin Fowler argues that internal quality of a software system enables new features and improvements to be delivered more sustainably. If you’re interested in improving the design mindset in your engineeringculture, I hope that the following techniques provide you with some food for though. It can be a cost-effective approach.
Autonomy & Alignment: Spotify EngineeringCulture – part 1, Henrik Kniberg, 2019. When you focus on value delivery alone, you risk sustainability for the future. However, if you spend too much on development, the value delivered will be too low to sustain a viable business.
When I joined CircleCI in 2018, the engineering team had been growing by 50 percent year over year, and also increasing in terms of geographical distribution. And after all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineeringculture. Conversely, the management team was incredibly small. Grow together.
However, it frames and guides the form it should take to make it more effective, useful, and sustainable. The more time I spend in this industry, the more interested I get about that social aspect of our systems. They do not replace technical solutions and good expertise remains critical.
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