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How Rules Can Foster Creativity: the Design System of Reykjavík
The value of design systems is especially evident in the public sector, where the need to use taxpayer money effectively aligns with the demand for user-centered solutions. By examining Reykjavík’s design system, we can gain insights into how design systems promote creativity, efficiency, and collaboration, with implications for both private and public sectors.
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Adaptive Responses to Resiliently Handle Hard Problems in Software Operations
As engineers move into more senior positions such as Staff Engineer, Architect, or Sr Tech Lead roles, their knowledge and experience is often applied across the system. This expertise is increasingly needed for handling novel problems or designing innovative solutions to complex problems. This article discusses strategies for approaching your role as a senior member of your organization.
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Architectural Retrospectives: the Key to Getting Better at Architecting
The purpose of an architectural retrospective is to use experience to help the development team improve their architecting skills and their way of working as they make architectural decisions. This is different than traditional architecture reviews which are focused on improving the architecture.
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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.
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Leadership & Effective Communication - Panel Discussion
InfoQ spoke to several technical leaders to understand how they adapt their communication strategies for the current challenges in the distributed and technology-driven workplaces.
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Beyond the Numbers: Decoding Metrics for Assessing Client-Side Engineer Impact
This article will delve into metrics that can be used for assessing the impact of client-side engineers. Our aim is to provide a more comprehensive perspective that can be useful when developing performance assessment guides for organizations building full-stack software, ensuring a more balanced and fair evaluation of engineers’ contributions and impact.
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How to Sustain Quality and Velocity in a JavaScript or TypeScript Project?
The JavaScript language and its ever-changing ecosystem of packages and practices can make codebases quickly become hard to maintain. The resulting loss of development velocity and/or code quality can be prevented without rewriting everything from scratch, nor pausing the development of new features. In this article, we have analyzed a few best practices to help avoid that.
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IDEA: a Framework for Nurturing a Culture of Continuous Experimentation
For a team to be agile, they need a culture that allows them to learn, unlearn, and relearn. This article explains how teams can foster such a culture, navigate through the complexities of modern development environments and harness agility to deliver software quickly that fits the needs of users and business sponsors. It describes a framework to explore, plan, implement and evaluate ideas.
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Shift in Sprint Review Mindset: from Reporting to Inclusive Ideation
Sprint Reviews should foster a dynamic environment of creativity, exploration, and continual refinement, where important product and overall business decisions are taken. In this article, we will explore the substantial mindset shift and routine change from a typical reporting-focused to interactive data-driven culture of Sprint Reviews.
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Data-Driven Decision Making - Software Delivery Performance Indicators at Different Granularities
Optimizing a software delivery organization is not a straightforward process standardized in the software industry. Getting the organization to analyze the data and act on it is a difficult undertaking. This article presents insights into how a socio-technical framework for optimizing a software delivery organization has been set up and brought to the point of regular use.
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[R]Evolutionize Your Retrospectives with Active Sensemaking
High-quality retrospecting involves embracing unique individual experiences, acknowledging human limitations and biases, and sharing context-rich anecdotes through storytelling within and beyond team boundaries. This article explores how Active Sensemaking can prevent tension or apathy and foster a more productive and harmonious team environment.
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How Not to Use the DORA Metrics to Measure DevOps Performance
The DORA metrics are the de facto measuring stick but they can be used incorrectly and drive poor behavior and performance. When using any metrics, a strong focus on the end goal must be maintained.