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Jump into the Demoscene: Where Logic, Creativity, and Artistic Expression Merge

The demoscene is a vibrant, creative subculture where you can use mathematics, algorithms, creativity, and a wee bit of chaos to express yourself. In this article, I want to inspire you to grab the opportunity to get your voice and vision on the table, and show you that the demoscene is not only for mathematical wizards.

Espen Sande Larsen
on Oct 30, 2024
Culture & Methods

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. Navigators replace a need for consensus and boost velocity by combining technical context, domain context, strategic alignment, and judgment to make engineering decisions quickly.

Dan Fike Shawna Martell
on May 22, 2024
Culture & Methods

How to Build and Foster High-Performing Software Teams: Experiences from Engineering Managers

Engineering managers can enable software teams to learn and improve, and help them move problems and impediments out of the way. In this virtual panel, we'll discuss how engineering managers support teams, what skills they possess, and how they establish alignment and foster knowledge and experience sharing between teams.

Ben Linders Olga Kubassova Michael Gray Hannah Foxwell
on May 10, 2024
Culture & Methods

InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - April 2024

The Culture and Methods trends report discusses evolving roles within teams, the way the staff plus roles are able to add value, the use and misuse of DevEx metrics, how remote work continues to evolve, a lack of diversity is still a challenge, and the need to move from climate change awareness to climate conscious software engineering.

Shane Hastie Jutta Eckstein Ben Linders Susan McIntosh Rafiq Gemmail Craig Smith
on Apr 09, 2024
Culture & Methods

Advice for Engineering Managers: Enabling Developers to Become (More) Creative

As an engineering manager, it is your responsibility to help facilitate creative thinking skills among the development team, but that's easier said than done. This article provides advice on how can you help amplify the creative thinking skills of your software development colleagues. We examine how different levels of creativity influence creativity and strategies to encourage creativity.

Wouter Groeneveld
on Feb 29, 2024
Culture & Methods

How to Deal with Complexity in Product Development by Using Solution-Focused Coaching

In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management. Integrating specific coaching principles can enhance the quality of your conversations by guiding dialogue to uncover actionable insights, foster trust, boost collaboration, and drive clarity in your objectives.

Alexander Giurca
on Jan 29, 2024
Culture & Methods

Navigating Complex Interpersonal Relationships: Co-Creating Deliberate Workplace Connection

As an employee or leader, you are in a relationship with each other and with the organization. You face the tension of traditional ways of working vs new ways of working in the call for more work-from-home policies, and more work/life balance. This article outlines the mindset and actions that can be taken to better navigate complex relationships leading to a more humanistic way of working.

Jessica Katz
on Dec 05, 2023
Culture & Methods

Adopting Asynchronous Collaboration in Distributed Software Teams

Meetings can be a major time-sink for distributed teams. While they can be valuable, if we reach for them as a default way of working, we inadvertently create a fragmented team calendar. This can be a drain on productivity, especially for knowledge workers who need time to focus on deep work. This article discusses the benefits of asynchronous collaboration and how to implement it on your team.

Sumeet Gayathri Moghe
on Nov 29, 2023
Culture & Methods

How to work with Your Auditors to Influence a Better Audit Experience

It is possible to influence a better audit experience, transforming it from a check-the-box exercise with little perceived value to one of true value that helps set you up for success, and with way less pain. This article explores how to experiment with adding agility into audit work while auditing a client, which can lead to better outcomes for you and your auditors.

Clarissa Lucas
on Nov 22, 2023
Culture & Methods

Agile Coaching as a Path toward a Deeper Meaning of Work and Life

In this article, we take a deeper look at the practice and purpose of agile coaching. We find out why interactions are the most essential focus in agile coaching - and also the basis of learning and professional development for the agile coaches themselves. We also learn how focusing on our existing strengths and situations can help us discover our authentic purpose in work and life.

Ari-Pekka Skarp
on Nov 16, 2023
Culture & Methods

Bridging Silos and Overcoming Collaboration Antipatterns in Multidisciplinary Organisations

There's a worrying trend towards focusing on specialisms at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility and valuable outcomes, which can take teams away from multi-disciplinary collaboration. This article calls out three collaboration anti-patterns that appeared in more than one organisation, some of the symptoms they cause and some thoughts on how to go about counteracting them.

Emily Webber
on Sep 21, 2023
Culture & Methods

Why Developers and Staff+ Engineers Should Get Involved in Open-Source Collaborative Development

Over the last 30 years, the world has become connected and digital. Open source is how we do modern software development, stitching together downloaded open-source libraries, frameworks, and other code to create new applications or functionality. This is why every developer and senior staff+ roles need to know what open source is and how it works.

Nithya Ruff
on Sep 15, 2023