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December 15, 2025

by Carisse Dumaua

· 3,125 Views · 5 Likes

Breaking Into Architecture: What Engineers Need to Know

A short, thought-provoking take on moving from engineer to architect, and how to grow the skills that support that leap.

December 10, 2025

by Syamanthaka B

· 1,670 Views · 2 Likes

Agile Is Dead, Long Live Agility

Agile is dead, long live agility. The brand may have failed, but its core ideas succeeded. It’s time to move on; the name was just a vehicle.

December 9, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,151 Views · 4 Likes

From Mechanical Ceremonies to Agile Conversations

Learn why Agile ceremonies fail when rituals replace real conversations and how to transform mechanical meetings into meaningful, value-driven events.

December 2, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,079 Views · 2 Likes

When Leadership Blocks Your Pre-Mortem

Learn all about why leaders resist pre-mortems and how this reveals deeper cultural issues that shape project success or failure.

November 24, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 3,844 Views

Beyond the Vibe: Why AI Coding Workflows Need a Framework

"Vibe coding" with AI improvising without a plan is fast but costly, leading to high rework, wasted money on tokens, and low-quality code.

November 17, 2025

by Akash Lomas

· 6,328 Views · 2 Likes

AI SDLC Transformation, Part 1: Where to Start?

Learn how to successfully adopt AI in software delivery by measuring transformation, starting small, and creating AI-ready processes and teams.

November 13, 2025

by Orkhan Gasimov

· 3,763 Views · 3 Likes

Facilitate AI-Human Architectural Thinking

Three pillars of the thinking framework: landscape view, decisional view, and structural view — an effective architectural modeling approach.

November 12, 2025

by Sean Gu

· 4,199 Views · 2 Likes

Why Agility Matters

This article discusses why agility matters and explains how to break the cycle when it doesn’t within your sphere of influence.

November 11, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 3,010 Views · 3 Likes

How Does a Scrum Master Improve the Productivity of the Development Team?

A Scrum Master facilitates Scrum events, removes impediments, addresses inefficiencies, and facilitates collaboration to improve the development team’s productivity.

November 7, 2025

by Sandeep Kashyap

· 4,526 Views · 4 Likes

AI Code Generation: The Productivity Paradox in Software Development

AI boosts coding speed short-term, but long-term gains need human oversight, reuse, and focus on code quality beyond cycle time.

November 5, 2025

by Ammar Husain

CORE

· 3,123 Views · 4 Likes

AIOps to Agentic AIOps: Building Trustworthy Symbiotic Workflows With Human-in-the-Loop LLMs

Build secure, human-in-the-loop AIOps workflows using agentic AI for smart alert triage, context summarization, and automated, safe incident resolution.

November 4, 2025

by Pratik Prakash

CORE

· 3,223 Views

A Developer’s Experience of Onboarding to a Platform

From manual cloud setups to guided golden paths — my onboarding journey revealed how platforms transform friction into flow.

October 31, 2025

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 2,606 Views · 5 Likes

Improving Developer Productivity With End-to-End GenAI Enablement

Build an end-to-end developer enablement hub locally with GenAI, automating everything from requirements to deployment to boost productivity and streamline workflows.

October 30, 2025

by Nabin Debnath

· 2,563 Views · 2 Likes

Evolving Golden Paths: Upgrades Without Disruption

Keep your golden paths evolving — with semantic versioning, automation, and empathy — to drive innovation without breaking developer flow.

October 23, 2025

by Josephine Eskaline Joyce

CORE

· 14,068 Views · 3 Likes

Applying Domain-Driven Design With Enterprise Java: A Behavior-Driven Approach

Learn how to combine DDD and BDD in enterprise Java to create software that models real business domains and validates behavior through executable scenarios.

October 23, 2025

by Otavio Santana

CORE

· 4,681 Views · 5 Likes

From Platform Cowboys to Governance Marshals: Taming the AI Wild West

AI feels like the Wild West — platform engineers must become governance marshals to scale trust and turn chaos into safe, sustainable innovation.

October 22, 2025

by Hugo Guerrero

CORE

· 2,469 Views · 1 Like

The Dangerous Middle: Agile Roles That AI Will Erode First

The Dangerous Middle: Learn about what Peter Yang's product management framework reveals about the future of scrum masters and agile coaches.

October 21, 2025

by Stefan Wolpers

CORE

· 2,824 Views · 2 Likes

Level Up Your Engineering Workflow with Copilot Templates

Templates help you write cleaner code faster by converting repetitive patterns to reusable prompts. Copilot can streamline test generation, reduce manual effort, and accelerate productivity.

October 17, 2025

by Lakshmi Narayana Rasalay

· 2,684 Views · 1 Like

DevEx Ambient Agent With Advanced Knowledge Graph

The Agentic DevEx Assistant boosts developer productivity by automating tasks, providing contextual insights, and offering personalized career growth guidance.

October 17, 2025

by Chris Shayan

· 6,148 Views · 2 Likes

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