Engineering Culture by InfoQ

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Dave West, CEO of scrum.org about agile beyond software, the need for organisational alignment and how product ownership is a major inhibitor for many organisations because it is not done well. Why listen to this podcast: • Agile ideas are taking root beyond software development, in business areas and in complex engineering environments • The scope of agility is more than just delivering great product – it is delivering great product, getting great feedback, experimentation and learning • The large consulting firms have the relationships at the most senior levels to enable top-down change in organisations • Most software teams today are delivering relatively well, however there is misalignment between the delivery teams and the wider organisation’s ability to accept and release product to the market effectively • Good product ownership is incredibly hard and most organisations do product ownership very badly More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3bvC9lY You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/3bvC9lY

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Caitlin Walker about clean language, anti-fragility and inclusiveness. Why listen to this podcast: • Clean Language is a way of communicating that helps reduce bias and influence in order to help bring clarity to a situation • Clean language questions can be used anywhere where gathering high quality information without biasing the answer will be useful • The questions expose diversity in thinking and attitudes and enable greater connections and empathy between people • An antifragile system is one that when you apply stress to it, it grows stronger • Clean language applied to teams helps them create the conditions for antifragility More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2OiMjwb You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2OiMjwb

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Persch of Panthion about supporting open source communities and leading technical teams Why listen to this podcast: • Communities need to be nurtured and supported • The open source community is based around the idea that you can build on the knowledge of others • Leadership technical teams can be challenging and there are some simple (but not easy) things that can be dome to be better at it • The goal should never be to follow a brand or methodology slavishly – it should always be about solving customer problems and delivering business value • Successful projects happen as a result of the people who work together, not the technology used More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/30Xi6rq You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/30Xi6rq

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David McAllister about building technical communities. Why listen to this podcast: • A community comes together around a common shared interest of some sort • Communities need to be actively nurtured in a similar way to open source projects • Communities require constant tuning, and this means you need to figure out ways to measure them • Different types of content work for different members of the community and in different contexts – ensure your content matches the intent • “Collecting data is only the first step towards wisdom, sharing data is the first step towards community” More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3asqUtV You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/3asqUtV

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kevin Callahan about positive organisational design and organisations as complex systems Why listen to this podcast: • Positive organisation development starts with areas where you are strong and builds on those, rather than focusing on weaknesses and negative areas • Involving people to open up “what could be” which starts a change effort that makes it possible to achieve • Start by trusting that people want to do amazing work • Organisations are complex systems and need to be treated as such • In complex systems the balance of pressures is necessary, and in many organisations one or other area becomes predominant (eg revenue or cost saving pressure) and this causes the system to become brittle More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/36Qj5fk You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/36Qj5fk

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Arie van Bennekum about Liquid Manifesto, a transformation framework to help organisations shift from old paradigms to new ones. Why listen to this podcast: • The Liquid Manifesto is a transformation framework to help organisations shift from old paradigms to new ones • Changing paradigms is the most difficult thing to do because bringing in new paradigms takes time and old paradigms define reflexes under stress • Your organisation has the have the capability to respond to change, if not you die • A Liquid organisation has people and teams who can work independently while remaining coherent, flowing together towards a common goal • A liquid organisation has a common cause, you know why you are there, you are connected while being very self-organising and you look for continuous improvement More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2sIBCeV You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2sIBCeV

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Scott Duncan about his InfoQ book Understanding Agile Values & Principles. An Examination of the Agile Manifesto. Why listen to this podcast: • The Agile Manifesto was written as a set of values and principles for improving software development outcomes • There are many brands, frameworks and methodologies which were represented at the Snowbird Lightweight Methods Conference where the manifesto was written • The authors were looking for common ground and the four values of the manifesto represented their collective agreement on the mindset which should underly software development • There is a difference between doing the practices of any agile method and being agile in mindset • Approaches such as Modern Agile and Heart of Agile are focused on returning to the underlying philosophy with a humanistic focus and moving away from prescriptive practice adoption More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/37qs9Yc You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/37qs9Yc

In this special year-end wrap-up podcast Wes Reisz, Shane Hastie, Daniel Bryant, and Charles Humble discuss what we’ve seen in 2019 and speculate a little on what we hope to see in 2020. Topics include business agility and Teal, what it means to be an ethical engineer, bringing your whole self to work, highlights from QCon and InfoQ during 2019, the rise of Python, and progress in quantum computing. Why listen to this podcast: * Business agility is one of the major themes that the InfoQ team has seen emerge this year, with stronger emphasis on outcomes over outputs. We’ve also seen a growing interest in ethics and the ethical implications of the work we all do. * On the programming languages front the rise of Python continues, driven largely by its popularity in data science. * As Kubernetes cements its dominant position we’re hoping to see a simplification of the workflows associated with it, as well as in areas like observability. * There have been several big announcements in quantum computing in the past year, and this is an area we continue to watch with interest. * Another key trend for next year is edge computing. The edge of the cloud infrastructure has an amazing amount of available compute resource, as does the device edge. More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ bit.ly/2Z0Q9OI You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: bit.ly/2Z0Q9OI

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke Ivar Jacobson about his work on the latest approach to use cases – Use Case 2.0. This is the second of two podcasts with Ivar – the first one exploring the Essence of Software can be found here: http://bit.ly/2OQEi2s Why listen to this podcast: • Use Case 2.0 expand on the ideas embodied in user stories • Some up-front design is needed in all software development projects • For any product you need the skeleton system that has the key requirements embodied in it early on • Any system should be able to be represented by between 10 and 20 key use cases More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2DEPM2m You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2DEPM2m

This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast, recorded at the Agile on the Beach New Zealand conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael & Audree Sahota about their work on helping leaders change to enable high performance Why listen to this podcast • Organisational transformation is about a deep shift from our current way of working and being into a completely different way of working and being which requires of us to grow and develop as human beings • In high-performance organisations people are willing to examine their egos, their leadership styles, their practices in order to learn and grow as a human being • As leaders we need to become aware of how we are showing up to others and then apply our problem-solving skills to deliberately choosing to adopt new ways of thinking and behaving • We’ve known from solid research over the last 20+ years that the only factor that matters about having an engaged team is the boss - the world’s greatest managers treat their people well • Culture, leadership and organisational change are not three separate things – they are one deeply interwoven thing and we need to have a deeply integrated understanding on how they are related to and dependent on each other More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/37yTnwN You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/37yTnwN