James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

The founders were immersed in XP, and XP is where we want to return, but there was a period of time where the company grew quickly and lost that XP culture. We have a bunch of engineers who dont have the XP mindset. This is a matter of changing organizational culture, and organizational culture isnt easy to change.

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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. This year Apiumhub is implementing this approach as well. Getting Stuff Done Days (GSDD).

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CircleCI

MAY 26, 2020

Before joining CircleCI, my years of experience led me to believe that I was an engineer with a firm understanding of the technical aspects of the craft, as well as what is considered good practice. At CircleCI, my team uses a short-lived branching model for software development.

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Is collaborative software development enough? DevOps changed software development – whether cloud-native, cloud-hosted or “Oops! It goes beyond just engineering culture and draining the backlog using harmonious collaboration. Let’s look at how we know how well we are doing that.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

JANUARY 7, 2022

This article presents how to use data science to detect wastes and impediments, and concepts and related information that help teams to figure out the root cause of impediments they struggle to get rid of.

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OverOps

JULY 11, 2018

The official definition of DevOps is “a software engineering culture and practice, that aims at unifying software development and software operation.” In order to better communicate and build better products, DevOps became one of the most critical positions in every company.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When I joined Discover® Financial Services in 2021, the company was executing its Runway: Mission 80,000 Feet vision to transform the engineering culture toward product-centricity. We came together as one team across the organization to create a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and improvement.

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LaunchDarkly

MARCH 17, 2020

You need two things to effectively move fast: a culture of psychological safety and smart investments in tooling. The culture and tools are part of the equation; the final piece is having the right processes in place to effectively use the tools and support the people. Setting yourself up for success.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers.

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Xebia

MARCH 21, 2024

Will it help us improve how we think about modeling developer productivity? ” When I think about software development activities and their opportunity costs, I think of the choices we make on a product level. A development team can be very productive in terms of output, e.g., delivering several features quickly.

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James Shore

APRIL 27, 2024

I’ve been quiet lately, and that’s because I’ve joined OpenSesame as Vice President of Engineering. It’s been a fascinating opportunity to rebuild an engineering organization from the inside, and I’m loving every minute. What I’m really doing is changing the engineering culture at OpenSesame. It tends to snap back.

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 12, 2022

I picked some of my favorite books at my company, Semaphore — books that have profoundly influenced the company’s engineering culture. This list contains a mixture of classic, timeless texts and a fair share of modern game-changing publications, aimed at senior engineers and devs.

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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.”. It’s undeniable that open source has changed the way we all build software. It’s how people build proprietary software across industries, teams, and time zones.

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Honeycomb

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We build teams hoping to do that 1-5% and giving little attention to the rest, then wonder how to fix that culture. Initially, as a software developer, it’s tempting to frame the software as an independent system that you work on. — Fred Hebert (@mononcqc) August 5, 2020.

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CircleCI

APRIL 20, 2022

In the user acceptance phase of software testing, developers provide part or all of the application to end-users or their representatives to model real-world interactions and functionality. Many healthy engineering cultures avoid relying heavily on user acceptance testing due to its unreliability, cost, and time consumption.

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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. Is it any surprise that studies are showing 83% of software developers are feeling burnout? Observability is more than a platform: it’s a culture shift.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Think in terms of modern software development which mostly involves receiving data, transforming it, and sending it to the next part of the system. T he simpler it is to explain , the simpler it is to understand. Any ambiguity in the requirements will lead to ambiguity in the implementation.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 29, 2019

Here I would like to share with you the outcomes of the “Path to Principal: Defining the Modern Principal Engineer” panel discussion that I had a chance to attend. So, in this article, you will find common patterns as well as our definition of Principal Engineer based on our experience. is not just about software development.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 29, 2024

The 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard is widely read and cited within academic circles but also permeates popular culture, influencing films, literature, and art. In the context of software development, particularly with observability 1.0’s

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James Shore

AUGUST 19, 2024

PDF) Culture Changes The purpose of the new career ladder is to help change the engineering culture at OpenSesame. PDF) Here’s a summary of the titles and skills, with changes marked: Associate Software Engineer Associate Software Engineers are just starting their software development careers.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 1, 2021

We are still in mid-journey but we can share a few highlights of what we have learned so far: The Netflix culture played a key role The Netflix engineering culture famously relies on personal judgement rather than top-down control. Software developers have both freedom and responsibility to take risks and make decisions.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

If you like the ideas in the post, then why not come and join me at Navico and help us to build a highly-innovative engineering culture and a brilliant place to work. this company is highly bureaucratic and it’s probably hard for developers to do any interesting or innovative work here. Not all code is created equal.

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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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The Programmer's Paradox

JUNE 1, 2013

A defective software development process, for instance, may appear to be reducing the overall number of bugs reaching the users, but the driving cause of the decreases might just be the throttling of the development effort. For software, picking a good process is crucial.

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InfoQ Culture Methods

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Machine learning is a powerful new tool, but how does it fit in your agile development? Developing ML with agile has a few challenges that new teams coming up in the space need to be prepared for - from new roles like Data Scientists to concerns in reproducibility and dependency management. By Jay Palat.

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Xebia

APRIL 23, 2024

Recently at Xebia, a new office location opened up in Amsterdam. At this location there is only a limited number of parking spots, and we want to avoid colleagues arriving at the office with their car without an available spot to park.

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The Programmer's Paradox

APRIL 12, 2014

My favorite jobs have all been wrapped in a strong engineering culture; one that strives to always do the right thing, pay attention to the details, avoid politics and focus on getting the best quality possible. Most of them were dominated by horrible people or bad cultures. It still does. Life is tough.

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Honeycomb

APRIL 26, 2022

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development —is no different.

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The Programmer's Paradox

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I landed deep in the heart of a reasonable engineering culture. Some people on the outside might have confused that development process with a classic waterfall one, but it wasn’t really. If you boil it down again and again, software development keeps coming back to its roots in engineering.

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Altexsoft

MARCH 3, 2023

For this, companies need to carefully design their teams, set clear goals and processes, and cultivate the culture of mutual trust and communication between employees with different expertise. Here, we will focus on software development so the roles will be chosen correspondingly. What is a сross-functional team?

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Strategic Tech

AUGUST 14, 2021

The cost of these small domain-related changes (like renaming, and extracting parts of code) is so little that it should be a good habit of every professional developer. In this story, the engineers and project manager decided to be bold and spend the time improving the model at the risk of missing a deadline.

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LaunchDarkly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I think it’s important when you’re talking about chaos engineering to also talk about culture. My first question is in terms of this chaos engineering culture, how does this play between your team with all the teams? My SRE team looks more like a software development team than it looks like assisted team.

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LaunchDarkly

JANUARY 14, 2020

At the November Test in Production Meetup in San Francisco, LaunchDarkly’s Yoz Grahame (a Developer Advocate) moderated a panel discussion featuring Larry Lancaster, Founder and CTO at Zebrium, and Ramin Khatibi, a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and infrastructure consultant.

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Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

What is engineering excellence? Engineering excellence, in the context of software development, is the relentless pursuit of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness in every aspect of our work. Each individual action might seem minor, but together they create a robust, secure, and efficient development process.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Open Source and a Culture of Sharing. The rise of open source software in the 1990s has undoubtedly transformed IT. While vendor lock-in is still a very real issue, the availability of open source software has done a lot to liberate IT. That’s where you should focus your software development effort.

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LeanEssays

JULY 14, 2019

I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.

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Apiumhub

MARCH 10, 2020

This tries to set up a base understanding of characteristics that make up a healthy Engineering Culture. Psychology values Team Pyramid. It’s an analogy to the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs. Related to the “Psychological Safety rated as the common in successful teams” Learned it in a session facilitated by Amy.

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