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10 ways to kill your IT culture

CIO

Transformational CIOs recognize the importance of IT culture in delivering innovation, accelerating business impacts, and reducing operational and security risks. Research on creating a culture of high-performance teams suggests there’s a disconnect between how leaders perceive their cultures compared to how individual contributors view them.

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The future of Cloud-native software development with Radius

Xebia

The rise of platform engineering Over the years, the process of software development has changed a lot. This approach made the development process straightforward initially, but as applications grew in complexity, maintaining and scaling them became increasingly challenging. Download the magazine here.

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5 ways to improve mental health for software developers

TechCrunch

I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent. Software development at its best is a creative endeavor. Developers need a certain level of comfort to be able to produce quality work.

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Make accessibility part of your startup’s products and culture from day one

TechCrunch

Being proactive about your hires and making sure they will contribute to a culture of accessibility and inclusion will save you major headaches. Once an organization implements and ingrains inaccessible processes and products into its culture, it is hard to make meaningful change. It’s not woven into the business culture.

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Building Like Amazon

Speaker: Leo Zhadanovsky, Principal Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Amazon's journey to its current modern architecture and processes provides insights for all software development leaders. To get there, Amazon focused on decomposing for agility, making critical cultural and operational changes, and creating tools for software delivery. The "two pizza" team culture.

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Time and Software Development – how ancient myths, rituals and metaphors shape our work today

Agile Alliance

Two metaphors dominate humanity’s relationship to time, and they are strikingly relevant to software development. We observe the movement of the sun, moon and stars, and the cycle or birth and death, and mark regular events with similar rituals across cultures. The first sees time as a succession of repeating cycles.

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6 ways you’re failing at change management

CIO

By establishing a culture that values continuous feedback and learning, organizations can pivot rapidly based on performance data, allowing them to respond proactively to market demands and technological advancements. Providing employee support during changes is one of the key features of a good change management initiative, he states.

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A DevOps Guide for Product Managers

Speaker: Suzie Prince, Head of DevOps, Atlassian

Luckily, the culture of DevOps and the practice of Continuous Delivery supports product managers and their teams as modern software development evolves at a rapid pace. Join Suzie Prince, Head of Product for DevOps at Atlassian, and make sure your software team never misses a beat during the pandemic.