- Remote work is suddenly the new normal due to the impact of COVID-19, and many teams are not fully ready for the change
- The spread of agile ideas into other areas of organizations continues—business agility is becoming much more than just a buzzword
- At the practices level, Wardley Mapping is one of the few truly new ideas that have come into this space recently. Invented by Simon Wardley in 2005, they are gaining traction because they are truly a powerful tool for making sense of complexity.
- The depth of impact that computing technology has on society has heightened the focus on ethical behavior and the move towards creating an ethical framework for software development, as well as growing concern in the environmental impact the industry has.
- Diversity and inclusion efforts are moving forward, with a long way still to go
- Practices and approaches that result in more humanistic workplaces, where people can express their whole selves, are recognized as important for attracting and retaining the best people and result in more sustainably profitable organizations
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Episode 151: Software Craftsmanship with “Uncle Bob” Martin
Craig and Tony are at YOW! Conference and are honoured to sit down with Robert C. Martin (aka Uncle Bob), signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and author of numerous books including “Clean Code“, “The Clean Coder” and “Clean Architecture” and they discuss:
- YOW! 2016 keynote “The Scribe’s Oath” as well as “Effective Estimation (or: How not to Lie)“
- Software craftsmanship has always been the work of individuals – not sure we have really achieved collaboration in programming
- Pair programming – some surgeons like to wash their hands and some surgeons don’t!
- Woody Zuill’s talk “Mob Programming, A Whole Team Approach“
- CODE – Uncle Bob’s “terrible” software development process before he stumbled across Extreme Programming and the wiki
- Kent Beck’s “Extreme Programming” article for the C++ Report
- The story behind the forming of “The…
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Engineering Culture and Methods InfoQ Trends Report – January 2018
At InfoQ we regularly revisit the topics we focus on based on the technology adoption curve. This article provides a view of the topics which are important to the community at the beginning of 2018.

- There is no longer a question about should an organisation adopt an agile approach to software development – some form of agile is now the norm for software development
- Craftsmanship is becoming more prevelant in software development
- Culture is recognised as a competitive advantage and an attractor for the best people and teams
- Distributed and remote teams are becoming the norm
- Diversity in all its forms matters today
- Ethics in software engineering will become more and more important
- Developer Experience and removing friction in the development process makes a difference to productivity and business outcomes
Source: Engineering Culture and Methods InfoQ Trends Report – January 2018


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