Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Culture will eat any structure. The pitfall is that it changes labels without the cultural and mindset change to go with it. Their approach grew from their people and their culture. In addition, all attempts to document a culture are simplifications that are missing details that were important.

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Xebia

APRIL 20, 2022

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. The last topic I would like to address is our main theme for the upcoming period: Creating Engineering Cultures for our Customer. Agile is a company way of working, not an IT one.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Are you aiming to improve Developer Velocity, as measured by the Developer Velocity Index (DVI) (1), which correlates with faster revenue growth, higher shareholder returns, increased innovation, and improved customer satisfaction? Alternatively, are you fostering a collaboration mindset, emphasizing knowledge sharing and collaboration?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Daily is bringing innovation, creativity and rich experiences through its API tools that were created with developers in mind and are easy to use and build on, while also being secure. “In In the future, video calls will not look like Zoom, and they will be powered by Daily,” she added. “In

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CircleCI

APRIL 13, 2022

At CircleCI, our mission is to manage change so software teams can innovate faster. We fully embrace blameless engineering culture and the DevOps principle of “you build it, you run it,” but the distributed nature of both our system and our teams has made that connection, communication, and resolution difficult.

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Xebia

MARCH 28, 2024

This is true in lagging organizations but even in places that are more innovative. You need to be aware of the culture in the organizations you work for and realize that the tech can be used for good and bad. You need commitment from management to support the budget and communicate the importance.

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Honeycomb

MAY 24, 2023

The pressure on today’s development teams is real: innovate, release quickly, and then do it all again, only faster. And, bonus, Honeycomb integrates easily into existing development tools, so teams can spend time innovating rather than context switching. Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. Culture doesn’t change easily. OpenSesame had a pretty innovative approach to career development before I joined. It involved a spreadsheet where engineers would gather evidence of their skills. Bigger than a breadbox, anyway.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2024

Higher-level languages, automation, low-code and no-code development platforms, and better programming environments have been gradually reducing the need for IT staff to perform low-level, routine tasks for years so they can take on more innovative challenges. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 3, 2022

Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD) is an initiative used by many top companies to improve the quality of the software development and boost a proactive, continuous improvement-based engineering culture in their organizations. Getting Stuff Done Days in Apiumhub: driving excellence through freedom & innovation.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Early 2018, we promised ourselves to create an environment which would bring a culture of positivity and change in the developer ecosystem. And these potentials are the stepping stone to open innovation. HackerEarth Djangothon is stepping to a culture of open innovation. Flashback. This was more than intuition! ).

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Zayo

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Zayo has a very large, international footprint that fuels global innovation. What is it like to work in engineering at Zayo? What is unique about your culture? Our engineering culture is really a team atmosphere. We rely on each other.

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. The operations team is just the last step between brilliant innovations and the nice people with the money. It matters just as much if you are writing code to update the network config or the website. That’s a mistake.

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Cloudera

AUGUST 31, 2018

We believe Cloudera is well positioned to unlock the potential of automation based on a strong history of innovation along with a compelling vision for a data platform for machine learning and analytics, optimized for the cloud.

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Capgemini

AUGUST 27, 2020

DevOps represents a change in IT culture. Leaders must inspire their workforce to innovate and create change through encouraging ownership, trusting their teams, and displaying ethical, authentic, and cooperative behavior. Leaders need to be culture builders by carrying the mission and strategy into the team and creating goals.

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CircleCI

JANUARY 22, 2021

Having a team big enough to handle the day-to-day, while also being able to innovate, is crucial. If your team is too small, the pace of innovation goes down. You need to maintain a steady heartbeat of innovation. A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed.

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d2iq

AUGUST 17, 2020

Empowering Both Developers and Operators When adopting Kubernetes and other cloud native services, it’s important to think about how they’ll impact the engineering culture. The challenge becomes how much freedom should developers have when it comes to selecting and developing new technologies that accelerate innovation?

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 13, 2023

2022 was another year of significant technological innovations and trends in the software industry and communities. The InfoQ podcast co-hosts met last month to discuss the major trends from 2022, and what to watch in 2023. This article is a summary of the 2022 software trends podcast.

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Xebia

APRIL 5, 2022

It allows for exploration and innovation. This is down to your company’s culture. You might even start out this way, adding features over time. It is collaborative. Development teams do not have to be passive consumers, they are free to contribute improvements. Will your teams adopt it?

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Github

MARCH 11, 2020

As Smale explains, “Our engineering culture is open and centered around teams owning services and being responsible for running them in production.”. Save time and encourage innovation with self-service . Get new ideas to customers faster. Opening up a project invites more ideas.

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Datavail

APRIL 6, 2022

Legacy applications create pain points because they hold the organization back from innovation in other technologies as well. Establishing an IT culture. Modernizing legacy applications is the perfect opportunity to reform your broader IT and engineering culture as well. Considering new ideas.

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CircleCI

MARCH 11, 2021

A few years ago, the engineering team at CircleCI had doubled year over year and became more globally distributed. After all this growth, we were running into challenges around evolving our engineering culture. So we created an engineering competency matrix , which is woven into everything we do. Drive toward alignment.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

As an engineering culture we always want to provide unlimited flexibility to open up a world of opportunity. Listening to our users is the key to knowing exactly what to remove, what to promote to the top, and what to innovate on. Yet the business user is here to just accomplish a few goals that we can help them with.

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Honeycomb

MARCH 18, 2024

“Honeycomb’s thought leadership aligned perfectly with our ethos, and we identified them as an ideal match from an engineering culture standpoint,” shared Joel, adding, “ I firmly believe in the principle that a product should excel at one thing, and Honeycomb exemplifies that.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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CircleCI

APRIL 12, 2022

Cloud engineering brings the cloud closer to application development, applying engineering practices and principles to infrastructure and innovating and collaborating faster across the entire team. Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform you can use to help create a cloud engineering culture in your organization.

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Netflix Tech

JUNE 1, 2021

Although other great companies play a role in our daily lives, many of them serve as a kind of utility, whereas Netflix is meant to make us live, laugh, and love by enabling us to experience new voices, cultures, and perspectives. After I read Netflix’s culture memo, I was completely sold. You’re in the right place!

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

You’ve got a backlog full of innovative product ideas that will transform your business results, but you just can’t hire people quickly enough to build and deliver your wondrous innovations. finding good software engineers takes so long and requires so much effort… but it doesn’t have to. Hiring is so hard?—?finding

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JUNE 26, 2020

And for me, the big part of the success of growth was actually a step above the pure engineering architecture. It’s firstly rooted in the engineering culture because the first Netflix employees are great people. We have some of the core components, some of the core tools that are available for most of the engineers.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

Modern businesses have to operate in a rapidly changing environment, so more enterprises are turning to cross-functional teams to foster innovation and stay competitive on the market. This Spotify unit helps the company create a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement. What is a сross-functional team?

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. Your core domain might be moving left because your competitor’s have launched a new innovation that renders yours obsolete. The third part of the narrative is the climate.

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Honeycomb

JULY 10, 2024

Thankfully, the book lays out guidelines about how to produce and accrue the greatest bonuses in various types of problems, like predicting or innovating. The details of the particular problem(s) that the group is addressing matter, so this diversity should be intentionally constructed.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In this article, Tariq King describes the metaverse concept, discusses its key engineering challenges and quality concerns, and then walks through recent technological advances in AI and software testing that are helping to mitigate these challenges.

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

To me, this story is what DDD is really about: developing the design mindset of a modeller to drive product innovation and enable continuous delivery of value, involving frequent collaboration with domain experts. Innovation is inventing new ideas, new domain concepts, and new domain terminology.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The true power of these small actions lies not just in the immediate time saved, but in the cumulative effect they have on the organization's engineering culture. This cultural shift can lead to innovations, improved product quality, and ultimately, better outcomes for the business and its customers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Framed by Kalanick as his “revenge business” after his previous P2P startup Scour was sued into oblivion for copyright infringement, Red Swoosh would be the precursor for Expensify’s future culture and ethos. They also got a taste of an exit without really getting the whole meal, if you will.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right…. They have a culture of respect for engineers, and of long-term thinking. Continuous improvement in production equates to frequent, incremental innovations in development.

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