This is the 2025 Engineering Culture Trends Report. The InfoQ editorial team and special guest Charity Majors discuss how AI is transforming software development and team performance.
Source: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends in 2025
This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space.
In the annual Culture & Methods Trends Report podcast, InfoQ’s Culture & Methods editorial team, with special guest Charity Majors, explored the shifting landscape of software development culture, tools, and practices. The wide-ranging discussion revealed several key trends shaping how software teams are working in 2025, from the profound impact of AI tools on development practices to evolving perspectives on team performance and observability.
Source: InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report – 2025
Join Alex Sloley, Craig Smith, and Shane Hastie in embracing the Agile Coaching Ethics to elevate your coaching practices. Discover how you can contribute to a future of ethical Agility.
Source: Navigating the ethical waters of Agile coaching with Alex Sloley
In the second of a two-part series, HRM Asia delves into why the transformative power of AI in HR is essential for navigating today’s business landscape.
Learning culture fuelling workforce agility in today’s complex landscape
Craig Smith, Product Lead Business Agility for SoftEd, part of Skills Development Group
“Learning is the engine that fuels today’s organisations forward in a complex landscape, with HR and L&D being the key drivers in cultivating a workforce that’s both agile and adaptable through a learning culture of continuous improvement and skill development. We must enable our workforce to learn and innovate rapidly to keep pace with evolving needs.”
“At SoftEd, we assist and empower organisations of all shapes and sizes with customised transformation. We offer capability assessments and frameworks – including predictive diagnostics. We follow with personalised learning journeys and coaching to power upskilling that is targeted and industry-aligned. An approach that combines our industry experts and leverages technology provides a real impact and outcomes for the organisations we support in capability uplift.”
The Culture & Methods Trends in 2024 cover the value of staff plus engineers, DevEx metrics, ways to make remote teams effective, challenges with diversity and software development impact on climate.
This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space. We discuss evolving roles within teams, particularly the way staff plus roles can add value, the use, and misuse of DevEx metrics, how remote and asynchronous work continues to evolve, the fact that a lack of diversity is still a challenge in information technology, the slow pace of adoption of modern leadership approaches in many organizations and the need to move from climate change awareness to climate-conscious software engineering. Of course, we could not explore trends today without looking at the impact of AI and LLMs, but we looked at them from a risk and benefit perspective for the people involved in software engineering.
Source: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report – April 2024
In this podcast the Culture and Methods editorial team along with special guest Jutta Eckstein talk about the current state and trends we see in the technology industry in 2024.
Source: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends in 2024
In this podcast the whole Culture & Methods editorial team plus Rebecca Parsons, CTO of Thoughtworks, explore the trends they see happening in the technology industry in 2023.
Source: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends in 2023
The two biggest factors influencing organisational culture in early 2023 are the highly publicised and hugely disruptive layoffs across the tech industry and the emergence of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT.
Source: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report – March 2023
It was a privilege to be invited by my good mate Tony Ponton to speak on his other podcast All The Remote Things.
In this episode we are joined by Global Agility Lead, Craig Smith who, up until recently, was also the director of Agile Alliance. Craig chats to us about his time at Agile Alliance and what the future holds for the organisation. We also discuss the updates Craig has made to his ’40 agile methods in 40 minutes’ and how there isn’t necessarily a blueprint when choosing the right agile methods for your organisation. Get in touch – Podcast – https://theagilerevolution.com/ Agile Alliance – https://www.agilealliance.org/ Craig’s website – https://craigsmith.id.au/
As we come to the close of the year, we’re also nearing the end of the terms for two of our volunteer board members, Craig Smith and Ellen Grove. We interviewed them both so they could share their thoughts about what it was like for them to serve on the board, including the highs and lows, some surprising things they learned, and more. This is the second post of two and features a Q&A with Craig Smith. You can read our interview with Ellen Grove here.
Source: An Interview with Outgoing Board Member Craig Smith
And I had some lovely comments on LinkedIn
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