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3 keys to boosting your engineering culture

CIO

Bridging the gap between vision and execution in the effort to create a robust, engaged engineering workforce depends heavily — though not solely — on culture. So, how do you continuously improve corporate culture — and, in this case, an engineering culture — that inspires people to do their best work every day?

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A Supportive Engineering Culture is Key for Recruiting and Productivity

DevOps.com

Skilled engineers are in high demand, as their ability to build new products quickly is extremely valuable for businesses competing in a tight market. Strong engineering talent allows businesses to increase productivity and meet customer demand faster, which is essential for long-term success.

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Nurturing Design in Your Software Engineering Culture

Strategic Tech

There are a few qualities that differentiate average from high performing software engineering organisations. In my experience, the culture is better and the results are better in orgs where engineers and architects obsess over the design of code and architecture. Regularly spending time with domain experts is important.

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5 Ways Companies Gamified FinOps To Drive A Cost-Aware Engineering Culture

CloudZero

Getting engineers to take action to optimize spending can feel like an eternal struggle for many cloud-based companies. In fact, this particular issue is consistently considered to be one of the number-one cost challenges modern companies face.

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Article: Tips on How Staff Engineers Can Impact Incidents

InfoQ Culture Methods

Staff engineers can influence behaviors during and after incidents by modeling transparency and questioning assumptions to strengthen engineering culture. In retrospectives, staff engineers can improved model root cause analysis to improve underlying cultural issues.

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A Software Engineering Career Ladder

James Shore

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. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to say how many engineers we have, so let’s just say “lots,” but not “tons.”

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Platform Engineering Essentials: 5 Key Learnings Before You Start

Xebia

Are you starting on your platform engineering journey? Platform engineering can help organizations reduce cognitive load for development teams, and create a significant improvement in developer experience (DevEx) as well as several other areas. Are you looking at how to create a successful platform with lasting value?