#Organizational-Design

Creating a solid engineering vision is essential to building a high-purpose environment. A well-defined vision acts as a guiding star for your team and ensures that everyone is working towards the same goal. Having a clear, motivating, inspiring, and achievable vision is one of the crucial pillars of distributed decision-making and leadership. In this article I will share 7 steps on how to create a compelling vision.

Have you ever seen organizations and teams spinning in circles, having endless discussions, and never seeming able to make progress? Have you witnessed environments where every decision was made by a leader in the hierarchical sense? Or even worse, by someone able to exert a specific power and overrule others? The scenarios that come to your mind might have one thing in common: They lacked a clear vision, mission, or applicable guiding principles and values (or all of those). In this article, I want to dive into the exciting and essential topic of engineering vision.

High-purpose environments are cultural spaces that inspire, motivate, and empower individuals to work toward a common goal. A strong sense of purpose, clear values, and a commitment to continuous growth and improvement characterize these environments. In this article I will share how to create high-purpose environments in software engineering

High-performing Organizations make sure that everybody has the information they need to do their job with alignment, autonomy and excellence. Default-to-open can help to ensure this.

The Inverse Conway Manoeuvre is unlikely to work in existing sociotechnical systems of a certain size and stability. It is even less likely to work in remote companies and distributed teams.

In traditional organisations, people leads are often made accountable for happy and striving employees. So what do you do when you don't have hierarchies? In short, self-leadership and supportive people (peers, buddies, and coaches) are the way to go.

Unlock the potential of your developer team with remote work! Discover the key benefits of working from home, including increased productivity, better work-life balance, and improved collaboration. Learn how remote work can help your team work more efficiently and effectively, and create a more flexible, fulfilling work environment. Read on to learn more!

Developer productivity is a crucial topic for high-performing software organizations. It becomes even more important when times get tough and the budgets are small.

We did it. Roughly two years after I joined BRYTER and one year after we started the developer experience team, we finally ended the era of manual deployments for roughly 15 teams.

As a developer experience team, we are often working in a platform mode but are constantly shifting into enabling mode for better results.