Secrets of a Strong Engineering Culture

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Video with transcript included: bit.ly/35zFwHp
Patrick Kua explores the building blocks of engineering culture, shares examples of how he has enabled and transformed the engineering culture of many teams and organizations, and how it can positively change the full stack.
This presentation was recorded at QCon London 2020: bit.ly/2VfRldq
#Culture #SoftwareEngineering

[@Budulai89]

Great presentation.

[@PetrGladkikh]

In my experience "publishing" your culture values never work unless they are already there. At least I never saw that working. At one of my jobs they did surveys and whatever feedbacking, but I were literally fired for pointing that manager's actions did not align with published "values", naturally because the manager wanted to keep their place. I am sure their metrics soared after me leaving the company. In another case values are published but no one really wants to change anything to align with them, that "culture" is now collecting dust in a closet. The problem is that people prefer to copy easiest parts, not important ones, that happens every time.

[@tristanmills4948]

100% agreed. I'm lucky enough to be in an org where a proposed core value was withdrawn because we aren't there yet. Instead it's an aspirational value.
Leadership has also listened at times when we're not meeting the values. That's core too.

[@smontiu]

Thanks for sharing

[@Its-Viru]

Brilliant speech... also when an antendee filles in as the camera man and has complete focus on the slides.

[@DheerajBhaskar]

Good slide design

[@mohammaddarmousa4167]

Brilliant

[@PetrGladkikh]

Fuck celebrations. It is never about completing a good work. It is always about cutting corners and shipping crap on time. Managers celebrate - it it _their_ celebtration - they get their promotion and move on. But it is engineers who have to bear all the headaches one having maintaining this stuff next day because the crap is broken.

[@TheCALMInstitute]

Wow I would NOT have named a conference QCon in the 2020s…

[@PetrGladkikh]

"Not enough engineering talent" - simply not true, rather you fail to recognize it. That's a sign that the guy still has something to learn.
Otherwise - good points.

[@YonoZekenZoid]

he's referring to the fact that the current demand for software developers can't be met because there aren't enough engineers, not the knowledge of the available base