Software Engineering Culture Round-Up

A Collection of Top Software Engineering Culture News, Articles, Presentations and Podcasts March 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 [Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on Software Engineering and Career Paths]( (podcasts, Feb 23, 2024) [Making Software Development Boring to Deliver Business Value]( (news, Mar 07, 2024) [Making the Decision to Be an Individual Contributor or a People Leader]( (presentations, Mar 05, 2024) [Agile Rehab: Engineering for Improved Delivery]( (presentations, Feb 20, 2024) [Multiplying Engineering Productivity in the Face of Constant Change]( (articles, Feb 14, 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 [How Platform and Site Reliability Engineering Are Evolving DevOps]( (articles, Feb 06, 2024) [Perils, Pitfalls and Pratfalls of Platform Engineering]( (presentations, Jan 30, 2024) [How to Develop a Culture of Quality in Software Organizations]( (news, Feb 08, 2024) [Advice for Engineering Managers: Enabling Developers to Become (More) Creative]( (articles, Feb 29, 2024) [The State of Software Engineering from an Academic Perspective]( (podcasts, Feb 09, 2024) Top News [Learning from Big Tech’s Engineering Productivity Metrics]( Gergely Orosz and Abi Noda published a Pragmatic Engineer article titled Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples. InfoQ reports on insights from Noda’s survey of engineering metrics used across 17 well-known tech giants. Noda found that rather than wholesale adoption of frameworks like DORA, leading teams use a mix of org-specific qualitative and quantitative metrics. [Using ChatGPT for Amplifying Software Testing Practices and Assisting Software Delivery]( Artificial intelligence can assist software delivery and be used to automate software testing and optimize project work. Dimitar Panayotov uses ChatGPT to generate test data, create email templates, and produce explanations based on test results. This saves him time that he can invest to become more productive. [How to Prevent and Repay Technical Debt: What Teams, Tech Leads and Managers Can Do]( Tech leads, project managers, and managers can prevent technical debt by giving software developers more time; in addition, they can plan for spare time and refactoring sprints to allow teams to improve code. To prioritise technical debt, development teams can show how much time we can save if we invest, and how complicated the software will become in the future if we don’t repay technical debt. [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]( [Why Stable Software Teams Aren't Always Best: Self-Selection Reteaming at Redgate]( There are advantages to having the same group of people stay together, especially in achieving a time-bound software development project. However, in a world where we increasingly see product or stream-aligned teams who own long-living software from creation through to delivery, operation, and ongoing improvements, then optimising for very stable teams is not the best idea, Chris Smith argues. [Skills and Insights for First-Time Managers]( The skills and capabilities required to be an effective first-time engineering manager are often orthogonal to those of an IC. These range from people management through to delivery of projects. We report on recent podcasts featuring Ben Greenberg, Matt Stratton and Shopify's James Stanier as they share practical management patterns for prospective, new and seasoned engineering managers. Top Articles [Testing Machine Learning: Insight and Experience from Using Simulators to Test Trained Functionality]( Testing machine learning systems is different. Machine Learning applications consist of a few lines of code, with complex networks of weighted data points. The data is where you find issues and bugs. [article]( [Four Steps to Achieving Operational Flow and Improving Quality in Tech Teams]( There’s always more to do than is possible to get done, it's important for work to flow effectively. This article discusses 4 steps to achieving operational flow and improving quality in tech teams. [article]( [How to Deal with Complexity in Product Development by Using Solution-Focused Coaching]( This article explores how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management using a solution-focused approach. [article]( [Generative AI and Organizational Resilience]( Organizations should empower staff to determine where generative AI makes sense, while building literacy on capabilities and limits. A human-centric, iterative approach will produce the best outcomes.∂e> [article]( [Tips on How Staff Engineers Can Impact Incidents]( Staff engineers impact incidents by modeling transparent and productive, serving as incident commanders to coordinate response, and getting involved in retrospectives to address root cultural issues. [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 [Setting Goals as a Staff+ Engineer]( Sabrina Leandro discusses how to define your development journey as a staff+ engineer, figuring out what you should be working on, how to set your goals, and how to define your backlog of work. [Sabrina Leandro]( [How DoorDash Ensures Velocity and Reliability through Policy Automation]( Lin Du discusses the details of their approach at DoorDash; how they enabled their engineers to self-serve infrastructure through policy automation while ensuring both reliability and high velocity. [Lin Du]( [Cognitive Digital Twins: a New Era of Intelligent Automation]( Yannis Georgas presents the building blocks of a Cognitive Digital Twin and discusses the challenges and benefits of implementing one in an organization. [Yannis Georgas]( [Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organizations]( Emily Webber explores some common anti-patterns and the problems that those anti-patterns create, then shares some approaches and techniques to break those silos down to work together better. [Emily Webber]( [How to Apply a Product Mindset to Your Platform Team Tomorrow]( Jelmer Borst explores the benefits and challenges of how organizations can make the shift from a traditional infrastructure team to "platform as a product". [Jelmer Borst]( Top Podcasts [Making Code Explain Itself – Observability Through AI]( Shane Hastie and Dr. Elizabeth Lawler, the founder and CEO of AppMap, talk about observability in the age of AI, creativity in programming and problems developers face on a day-to-day basis. [podcast]( [Resilience and Incident Management with Vanessa Huerta Granda]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Vanessa Huerta Granda Manager of Resiliency Engineering at Enova. [podcast]( [Becoming a Staff Plus Engineer with Joy Ebertz]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Joy Ebertz, a principal engineer at Split, about growing into a staff-plus role. [podcast]( [Building Organizational Resilience through Documentation and InnerSource Practices]( In this podcast we talk about the importance of documentation for organizational resilience, the concept of InnerSource, the parallels between engineering and art. [podcast]( [What It Takes to Deliver Better Results]( In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Gil Broza about his new book Deliver Better Results and the importance of putting people first in organizations. 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