Engineering Culture Revived

Waves of technology innovations are sweeping through all industries now, and software development teams are finding themselves on the receiving end of exponential demands: cloud, big data, machine learning, voice- activated, IoT, yada yada! For many organisations, the fear of being left behind results in the formation of a ‘transformation project’ and before you know it the software development team is tasked with swathes of ‘new’ process techniques that 'Management Consultants' have decided define the ‘right’ culture: DevOps! Agile! Scrum! Lean! .. before you know where you are, no work is getting done at all (workshops/ meetings/ ‘hackathons’).

This session highlights the techniques software development teams can adopt for themselves to establish robust engineering culture to ‘leapfrog’ management interventions, and establish a ‘defence’ against misguided top down-driven ’transformations’: understanding the threats/ core engineering principles revived/ leading the change/ establishing a community/ crossing the tech- business divide/ leap-frogging ‘digital transformation .