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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. Run Regular Design Katas and Internal Workshops Design katas are an excellent way to build up an appreciation for design, both at the code and architectural level.

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Outside-in Domain Landscape Discovery

Strategic Tech

You may find that other approaches work better for you, and in reality every workshop is different so you need to be flexible. The following steps are my baseline format for a series of discovery workshops. The scope of the workshop will influence how many levels is necessary. This is a tricky problem for facilitators.

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture. There are a few aspects of our company culture that I believe contribute to this, namely empowering employees’ voices and blamelessness. Sessions & Workshops.

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Turning Domain Discovery into Product and Organizational Improvements with a DDD Exemplar

Strategic Tech

One of the challenges I see regularly is inertia following domain discovery workshops. Choosing where to focus is a balancing act: delivering new products, fixing legacy software, and improving engineering culture. How do you go from event storm to product and organizational improvements?

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Socracan 2020 Experience Report

Apiumhub

Selecting better Open Space sessions. – Informing what type of session it is: workshop, presentation. This tries to set up a base understanding of characteristics that make up a healthy Engineering Culture. It’s just an analogy to explain the difference with an open space. What I learnt. CQRS/ES in sync mode.

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Steering DevOps: a leader’s role on deck

Capgemini

Teams should be organized around seven key roles: the DevOps evangelist, change and deployment manager, automation architect, pipeline architect, quality assurance professional, security engineer, cultural change lead. A DevOps transformation is only technical on the surface: the success lies within the people.

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What Intrinsic motivation drives your colleagues with Moving Motivators

Xebia

I’ve prepared a workshop to help us gain insights into colleagues’ intrinsic drives, using an hour in our Xebia Knowledge Exchange schedule. People are the most critical part of an organization, and managers must do all they can to keep them active, creative, and motivated. The management 3.0 So, any colleague could join.

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