Engineering Culture by InfoQ

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Lanette Creamer about the need for technical skills by testers and the importance of exploratory testing. Why listen to this podcast: • Despite the importance and value it provides, software testing is not a particularly respected profession • Testers with development skills and developers with testing skills can communicate effectively with each other and pairing results in faster bug identification and removal • Unit tests are an asset of confidence • Testers have an ethical responsibility to think beyond the intended use of the code, considering what could happen and how the product could be misused • Exploratory testing is an approach where instead of trying to prove that the software works, the goal is discovery More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3hQAiuP 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/3hQAiuP

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile about the DA toolkit and taking agile beyond software devlopment Why listen to this podcast • Disciplined Agile is a toolkit which provides a view of agile adoption at four levels – software development, DevOps, IT departments and whole enterprise • The toolkit provides context and questions to help you to make better choices for the specific context each team is working in and to do process improvement • Consistency across teams should not be a goal of agile adoption – each team is different, and they must inspect and adapt in ways that work best for their context. There is no one size fits all • Guided continuous improvement gives teams and organisations a head start on improvement by identifying patterns that have worked elsewhere, showing the choices available and the trade-offs that need to be made between different approaches • Good governance is all about motivation, enablement, monitoring and transparency, ideally with an automated framework – not bureaucracy and manual checks. Transparency over false predictability More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3fwQyiZ 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/3fwQyiZ

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Steve Crago about how leaders need to be coaches, being a good mentor and facilitating effective meetings Why listen to this podcast • There is an expectation that leaders are able to be effective coaches for their teams today • There are tools such as the Leadership Circle Profile that can help you understand your own strengths and weaknesses • You don’t necessarily need to work on weaknesses – often enhancing areas of strength can give better results than focusing on improving areas of weakness • To effectively mentor someone in an area you need to have deep knowledge and experience working in that domain • Facilitation is a skillset that is about helping others achieve their goals in a collaborative session More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2Yk1g5s 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/2Yk1g5s

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Derek Weeks of Sonatype about the results of the 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey and the All Day DevOps conference. Why listen to this podcast: • If you’re doing DevOps correctly then DevSecOps is already a part of it • Organisations with mature DevOps practices have more security tools and security is more tightly integrated into the overall environment • Organisations with mature teams have a higher percentage of happier developers within their organizations than the immature ones • Happy developers are 3.6 times more likely to pay attention to security • In organisations with unhappy developers the primary cause of friction in the development process is management, in happy environments it is other developers More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/379gYEf 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/379gYEf

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Dr Michelle O’Sullivan and Douglas Talbot about how managers and team leads can support the mental wellness of their teams through turbulent times Why listen to this podcast: • Good work is one of the best things for our mental health. It gives us a sense of purpose and it provides us with a community • Mental wellness is about how to speak with people, having open conversations, giving people practical support when they need it, and also just creating a safe space and a good culture within your team. Most of it is just about good line management in general. • Checking in in about how people are sleeping can be a safe conversation and can be good indicator of potential deeper issues • So if somebody is quite stressed by the pandemic or what's happening with their loved ones, or someone's sick, these are very real fears, and we don't want to pathologize what is a very normal reaction to an abnormal situation • As a manager it is important for you to model the behaviour you want to see in your team, be vulnerable and open about your own fears and concerns, which gives others permission to be vulnerable too More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2ZGTaGa 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/2ZGTaGa

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Steve Holyer about facilitating open space events, then he spoke to Tim Meyers about the competencies and attitudes needed for good coaching Why listen to this podcast: (Open Space) • Open Space Technology is a powerful tool for engaging participation • Designing a good Open Space event take careful preparation and support • Open Space gives the benefit of the hallway conversations that are so valuable in most in-person events • Open Space events can be facilitated remotely, provided the facilitators are experienced and put care into the design of the event (Coaching) • There is a well defined set of competencies for agile coaching • These competencies include professional coaching, mentoring, facilitation and teaching • Agile coaching has a bias towards using an agile approach to address problems and opportunities • Being a coach means you're prepared to partner with people as they improve, as they go through change • An ethical foundation for coaching is to firstly do no harm More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2WlQFqz 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/2WlQFqz

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to with Victor Germano, Deepti Jain and Angie Doyle about the ways the Agile Alliance supports community initiatives. Why listen to this podcast: • The Agile Alliance supports many initiatives which are the way that community members get involved with the work of the Alliance around the world • Initiatives are mainly member created ideas which support the value dials of the organisaiton: increase the depth and breadth of agile, create an inclusive and global community, bringing value to members • There are a wide range of initiatives already underway, and the Alliance is always looking for more opportunities to expand the way they reach and serve members around the globe • There is a process to follow and people who want to help get new initiatives established • Before proposing a new initiative examine the ones which are already underway to see if what is needed can be met through one of them More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2YDu2PU 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/2YDu2PU

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Antoinette Coetzee and Jason Knight about Collective Sensemaking and Deliberately Developmental Conversations Tags: Agile, Agile 2019, Agile conferences, productivity, teamwork, psychological safety Key takeaways: • We are generally unaware of our own developmental stage in building relationships • Raising awareness and exploring our own perceptions is possible and a powerful tool for building relationships with others • Psychological safety is a precondition for developmental conversations, and it needs to be paired with psychological challenge • You can't have psychological challenge without psychological safety and you won't have any growth unless there is psychological challenge as well • The participants have to be mutually committed to each other's development and to their own development in order to help each other grow in areas that they need More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2y3Io1j 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/2y3Io1j

In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Chris Bailey about his book Hyperfocus and techniques for productivity hacking. Why listen to this podcast: • For many of us, having available time is not the problem – it’s having available attention • We all have a chronotype which shows the time of day when we are most productive • Productivity is about more than just managing time – it’s about managing time, energy and attention • Research shows that we tend to focus on one thing for only 35-40 seconds before being distracted • Tasks that lead to procrastination have seven things in common: Those are whether a task is boring, whether it’s frustrating, whether it's difficult, whether it's ambiguous, whether it is unstructured, whether it's lacking in personal meaning, and whether it's lacking in intrinsic rewards. More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2XPhZyF 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/2XPhZyF

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jono Bacon about building communities, the value of community when suddenly working remotely and remote collaboration. Why listen to this podcast: • In the suddenly remote environment caused by COVID-19, community becomes even more important than when teams were mainly collocated • Every business has got an internal community to a degree, often somewhat accidental in nature, but when you become remote you need to lean on that sense of connectedness with your colleagues a lot more • One of the things that unifies communities more than anything else is a sense of purpose • There are three types of communities in the world - consumer, champion and collaborator • When working remotely it’s very important to be intentional about maintaining the relationships with your colleagues More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/3cee02z 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/3cee02z