Cultivating Healthy Engineering Cultures: Insights From Sophie Weston
InfoQ, Friday, January 24th, 2025
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sophie Weston, Principal Engineer at ClearBank, about her career in tech, the importance of good team practices, the evolution of DevOps, and the need for a supportive engineering culture.
Software engineering is not just about churning out code, but also about creating a good environment and culture for doing that work.
Many teams are still stuck in a "feature factory" mindset rather than practicing true agile or DevOps principles.
Engineering teams need to make time and space for important non-coding activities like documentation, training, retros, and continuous improvement.
Engineering leaders and managers need to be supported and trained, as the skills for being a good manager are different from being a great individual contributor.