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Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

Dec 11, 2024 | infoq.com | Ben Linders |Joy Ebertz |Pablo Fredrikson

InfoQ Homepage Articles Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer Write for InfoQ Feed your curiosity. Help 550k+ global senior developers each month stay ahead.Get in touch Transitioning to a principal engineer role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership skills, focusing on both individual contributions and team dynamics. The key skills for aspiring principal engineers include strategic thinking, influencing others, and effective communication, alongside the ability...
How to Improve Software Team Performance with Experimentation

Oct 3, 2024 | infoq.com | Ben Linders

According to Terhi Aho, experimentation is a way of thinking that guides action. By experimenting we can develop ways of working without a major change process. It can help software teams to solve problems in small steps, relieve their workload, and foster self-management. Terhi Aho gave a workshop about using experimentation to improve team performance at Agile Tampere.
Ideas for Crafting Inclusive Public Software Platforms

Aug 8, 2024 | infoq.com | Ben Linders

Public software platforms should be inclusive and accessible to everyone, where people feel comfortable using them. Aleksandra Osińska and Natalia Sidor gave a talk about crafting public platforms at ACE Conference. It’s a big challenge to design a platform for everyone, from digital newbies to natives, with varying knowledge and experience of administrative processes, Osińska said.
How Team Health Checks Help Software Teams to Deliver

Jul 25, 2024 | infoq.com | Ben Linders

In healthy software teams, people feel psychologically safe to solve problems and contribute, Brittany Woods said in her talk at QCon London. She presented how they do team health checks and the benefits that it has brought them. The biggest indicator that a team is healthy is the psychological safety of those within the team, Woods said. If not every member is feeling safe within the team to contribute or voice their opinions, it’s not possible for the team to be healthy, she added.
How Building a Platform as a Product Empowered Software Engineers

Jul 11, 2024 | infoq.com | Ben Linders

Platform engineering is about accelerating and empowering developers to deliver more product value faster over time. According to Jessica Andersson, most companies don’t invest in platform engineering until they reach a certain size. At QCon London she presented how their startup adopted platform engineering, what strategy they took, and what they have done to gain platform adoption from developers.
Transforming Software Product Teams into Tech Investors

Jul 4, 2024 | infoq.com | Ben Linders

The key responsibility of an organisation lies in balancing user value with profitability. In a product organisation, software product teams invest their own time. According to Fabrice des Mazery, software developers are much more than stakeholders; they are the main investors as they are part of the product teams. Fabrice des Mazery spoke about how Tripadvisor transformed its software product teams into tech investors at FlowCon France.
How Data Mesh Platforms Connect Data Producers and Consumers

Jun 27, 2024 | infoq.com | Ben Linders

A challenge that companies often face when exploiting their data in data warehouses or data lakes is that ownership of analytical data is weak or non-existent, and quality can suffer as a result. A data mesh is an organizational paradigm shift in how companies create value from data where responsibilities go back into the hands of producers and consumers. Matthias Patzak gave a talk about data mesh platforms at FlowCon France.
Transitioning from a Software Engineering Role into a Management Role

Jun 20, 2024 | infoq.com | Ben Linders

Software engineers who want to become good at leading engineers can use everyday opportunities to practice management. Peter Gillard-Moss gave a talk at QCon London where he shared his experience with becoming a manager, and provided tips and ideas for engineers aiming to become a manager. Gillard-Moss mentioned that he wanted to enter management because he believed his technical experience gave him the insight to lead and make decisions on behalf of the team.
What Drives Quality, Ben Linders

Feb 11, 2024 | bol.com | Ben Linders

With plenty of ideas, suggestions, and practical cases on software quality, this book will help you to improve the quality of your software and to deliver high-quality products to your users and satisfy the needs of your customers and stakeholders. Many methods for product quality improvement start by investigating the problems, and then work their way back to the point where the problem started. For instance audits and root cause analysis work this way.