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
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
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/
My talk with from Agile Virtual Summit called “40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes: 2022 Edition” is available below:
2022 – Agile Virtual Summit – 40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes
More to come.
In this podcast the InfoQ Culture & Methods editors, along with special guest Sandy Mamoli, discuss what they have seen over the last year and the trends they see going forward.
Source: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2022
Hybrid work needs careful redesign and reassessment of the workplace and will be a significant challenge going forwardThis year’s trends report is definitely the most pessimistic we’ve seen in the last decade. Some trends we saw last year have hit bumps and roadblocks and some early cultural successes have dropped back.
Many of the points we made in last year’s trend report are still true, and sadly there has not been a lot of movement in the topics on the left of the technology adoption curve. 2021 was a year of consolidation, massive movement of people and more pressure being put on already tired teams.
Source: InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report – March 2022
My talk with Alex Sloley and Shane Hastie from Agile Virtual Summit: Coaching Edition called “Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching” is available on Slideshare.
People serving in an agile coaching role are expected to act ethically, but what does that mean in practice?Agile coaching is an evolving profession encompassing many disciplines including individual, team and systemic coaching, facilitating, teaching and mentoring, all applied with an open and deliberate bias towards using agile approaches to help address a client’s needs.
The complexity of agile coaching means that you will inevitably encounter difficult situations.
What if you had a Code you could follow that would help support you when difficult decisions need to be made?
What if that same Code helped you act courageously in every situation, even if there is a personal negative impact?
A group of volunteers has been working on crafting just that code. Specifically a Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching under an Agile Alliance initiative.
This talk will present the background to the work which has been done so far, walk you through the content of the code and explain where it can go in the future.
During the session, you’ll be introduced to a few ethics scenarios that will help you identify the types of dilemmas you may face in the field. You’ll discover some examples of appropriate and inappropriate ethical behavior in these different contexts, and how to address them.
A huge thanks to Adam Weisbart for the invitation and Lyssa Adkins for supporting this message and getting us on the program. Please review the Code of Ethical Conduct for Agile Coaching and related scenarios. You can watch the video or grab the transcript by subscribing to the All Access Pass.
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