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Engineering Excellence: Declan Whelan on Technical Health, Agile Practices, and Team Culture
Engineering Culture by InfoQ
Build for Today, Sustain for Tomorrow: Embrace Stewardship in Engineering Practices
To establish an effective engineering team, it's crucial to implement foundational technical practices that have evolved over time. Four vital practices, initially proposed in Extreme Programming, remain relevant: pair or ensemble programming, test-driven development, refactoring, and simple design. While these core practices provide a strong basis, modern advancements like DevOps and continuous delivery have become essential for optimizing production systems, emphasizing observability and implementation of feature flags. A significant shift in focus is the concept of stewardship in service development, which encourages building maintainable services for the long term. This foresight ensures that systems are not only functional today but can be sustained and evolved by future teams, promoting a culture of responsibility towards the software lifecycle that transcends individual projects.
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