TechKeeper’s Guide #57 – How organisations are changing 🤔

“The traditional company is currently seeking a return to the office. It may talk of hybrid models of working but it has a bias in one direction. It is a procedurally driven beast with executives that consider themselves in the role of heroic leaders (even if they don’t openly say so)."

Therefore, in today's featured article, we wanted to take a look at how organisations are changing nowadays and how it can impact the future. 

Besides that, in the newest issue, we highly recommend articles on ways to measure work satisfaction, technical debt and documenting software architecture in 2021.

Enjoy the content and keep on leading! ✊

– Marcin Mazurek, The Software House

⭐️ Our favorite read

How organisations are changing

SWARDLEY Companies that were strongly procedure driven and show a bias towards a future of office work would have significantly different characteristics to companies that were driven by guiding principles and show a bias towards a future of remote work.

✊ Leadership & Culture

Developers aren’t rockstars; they’re footballers

SKILLER WHALE When a player joins a football team, they’re subjected to whatever fitness and nutrition program the team’s coaches and doctors have designed. What about developers?

Why it’s difficult to build teams in high growth organisations

JASON YIP By “high growth”, I mean in terms of employee count and roughly doubling or more every year. Even at slower growth rates, some of the phenomena I’ll describe may be relevant.

A simple way to measure work satisfaction and see trends

ROTHMAN Analysis of some tools that can help with measuring work satisfaction, see trends and draw conclusions for the future.

💡 Technology

How to document your architecture in 2021?

THE SOFTWARE HOUSE In this article, the author focuses on how they share information about documentation at The Software House. And generally – how to document your architecture on the daily basis?

Graph Database vs Relational Database

MEMGRAPH At the very beginning of most development endeavors lies an important question: Which database to choose? This article may help.

The true meaning of technical debt

REFACTORING It is a fact that, over time, all development teams get slowed down by the existing codebase. But why? Is it because maintenance is inevitable? Or because we could do something better in the first place? Or both?

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