Software Engineering Culture Round-Up

A Collection of Top Software Engineering Culture News, Articles, Presentations and Podcasts June 2024 [InfoQ] Software Engineering Culture Round-Up Sponsored by [Scrum.org] [Latest Content](#latest-content), [Top Viewed Content](#top-viewed-content), [Top News](#news), [Top Articles](#top-articles), [Top Presentations](#top-presentations-and-interviews), [Top Podcasts](#top-podcasts) In this special newsletter we bring you up to date on all the new content and news related to Software Engineering Culture on InfoQ. We are also maintaining a portal page for this content on InfoQ at: [(. [] Latest Content on InfoQ [The Three As of Building A+ Platforms: Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability]( (articles, May 20, 2024) [Tips and Techniques for Improving Retrospectives]( (podcasts, May 17, 2024) [Developer Experience Influenced by Open Source Culture]( (podcasts, May 10, 2024) [Challenges and Solutions for Building Machine Learning Systems]( (news, May 09, 2024) [Enhancing Developer Experience for Creating Artificial Intelligence Applications]( (news, May 02, 2024) [Evolving the Agile Organization with Evidence-Based Management]( This guide includes concepts and tools for enabling business agility through Evidence-Based Management. It examines the importance of Organizational Design and Culture, which includes human factors, processes, and structures in the organization that can promote or inhibit agility with Scrum. [Learn more](. Sponsored content [Evolving the Agile Organization with Evidence-Based Management - Sponsored by Scrum.org]( [] Top Viewed Content on InfoQ [InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - April 2024]( (articles, Apr 09, 2024) [How to Build and Foster High-Performing Software Teams: Experiences from Engineering Managers]( (articles, May 10, 2024) [How to Tame Technical Debt in Software Development]( (news, Mar 28, 2024) [The Impact of Testing in Software Teams]( (news, Apr 04, 2024) [Use Engineering Strategy to Reduce Friction and Improve Developer Experience]( (presentations, May 15, 2024) [] Top News [How to Do Sustainable Software Development]( Software sustainability includes computing for environmental purposes and using resources appropriately. According to Coral Calero, software engineers need a holistic way of looking at software and should be aware of the environmental impact of software. Several tools and frameworks are available for software engineers to do sustainable software development. [How a Game of Patterns Can Help Software Organisations to Gain Insights and Improve]( Patterns can help us to understand how things work and how cultures develop. The game in an organisational system is about recognizing patterns and anti-patterns. According to Tiani Jones, leaders should work on the system rather than in the system and create the conditions for the development and sustainment of good patterns in software organisations. [Adopting Agile by Increasing Psychological Safety in a Software Team]( To test the agile way of thinking, a software team worked on their psychological safety with kick-off exercises, sharing coffee breaks, celebrating wins, a stand-up question, and 1-on-1 talks. This helped them to increase psychological safety in their software team. [Gillette Case Study: Developing Razors Using Scrum]( In this podcast, Gillette's VP of Global R&D, David Ingram, discusses the successful transition to Scrum for a new razor, emphasizing parallel creation, faster decisions, and improved execution quality. The shift showcases Scrum's benefits in team alignment, outcome focus & stakeholder engagement. [Listen now](. Sponsored content [Gillette Case Study: Developing Razors Using Scrum - Sponsored by Scrum.org]( [Fix Your SDLC before Adopting Gen AI in Your Organisation: Bannon’s Call to Action at QCon London]( During her keynote at QCon London, Tracy Bannon, architect and researcher at MITRE, argued that AI will be able to enhance the software development lifecycle, though currently it’s at the “code completion” rather than “code generation” phase. Throughout her presentation, she continuously stresses the importance of keeping humans in the loop and fixing your company’s SDLC before embracing AI. [QCon London: The Art, Science and Psychology of Decision-Making]( At QCon London 2024, Hannes Ricklefs, head of architecture at the BBC, gave a well-received talk on decision making. Ricklefs summarised the key reasons behind applying art, science and psychology to the discipline of decision-making, focusing on appropriate methodologies to use and the effects of biases on our ability to make good decisions in both a personal and business context. [] Top Articles [Leading Tech People or Remaining a Software Engineer: What to Choose? Panel Discussion]( In this virtual panel, we explore what made people decide to become a leader and how they did it, and we'll find out if we really have to leave tech forever or if there's a way back into engineering. [article]( [Getting Technical Decision Buy-In Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process]( This article examines how Comcast has employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework, and adapted it for making technical and non-technical decisions both large and small. [article]( [Accelerating Technical Decision-Making by Empowering ICs with Engineering Strategy]( Carta harnesses the power of a small group of senior engineers called navigators to bridge the gap between global strategy and local decision-making, using a written engineering strategy. [article]( [Practitioner Learning Series: Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework]( To help practitioners advance their use of Scrum, this learning series dives deep into Scrum theory and the Scrum framework, providing practical advice on how to use Scrum to increase the effectiveness of individuals, teams and organizations. [Learn more](. Sponsored content [Practitioner Learning Series: Understanding and Applying the Scrum Framework - Sponsored by Scrum.org]( [] Top Presentations [The Creative Act: How Staff+ Is More Art Than Science]( David Grizzanti talks about his path to Staff+ and how he views it as more art than science, looking at the parallels between creating art, creating software, and dealing with organizational dynamics. [David Grizzanti]( [Success Patterns in for Building Cyber-Physical Systems with Agile]( Robin Yeman demonstrates that there is a mission imperative to migrate from phase gate approach to Scaled Agile to increase safety for stakeholders. [Robin Yeman]( [Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops]( Fred Hebert discusses various small approaches and patterns that influence how teams deal with reliability, and highlights some of the key interactions and behaviors. [Fred Hebert]( [Portfolio Analysis at Scale: Running Risk and Analytics on 15+ Million Portfolios Every Day]( William Chen discusses the importance of trimming your computational graph, storing data in multiple formats, leveraging open source, and considering multiple dimensions of modularization. [William Chen]( [Understanding Platforms: What They Are, Why They Work, When to Use Them, How to Build Them]( Hazel Weakly discusses platforms and platform engineering, and what it means to learn, and how collective thought scales across a team, an organization and an industry. [Hazel Weakly]( [] Top Podcasts [Using Cognitive Science to Improve Developer Experience]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Hans Dockter, founder and CEO of Gradle Inc about using cognitive science to improve developer experience. [podcast]( [Empathy as a Key Success Factor for High Performing Development Teams]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Cassie Shum, VP of Field Engineering at Relational AI, about the importance of empathy in engineering culture. [podcast]( [The State of Agile in 2024]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Joyce Tompsett about the 17th State of agile report. [podcast]( [InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends in 2024]( In this podcast the Culture and Methods editorial team along with special guest Jutta Eckstein talk about the current state and trends we see in the technology industry in 2024. [podcast]( [A Convoluted Path From Individual Contributor to Leadership]( In this podcast Shane Hastie spoke to Chandler Hoisington about lessons learned in his time at Amazon, transitioning from engineering into management and advice for new leaders. 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