InfoQ - Culture

InfoQ Launches High-Performing Teams Certification Program

Artenisa Chatziou — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT

InfoQ has opened enrollment for a new five-week certification program covering engineering team design, delivery flow, AI-enabled work, and metrics, facilitated by InfoQ editor and podcast co-host Olimpiu Pop.

By Artenisa Chatziou

Building a Collaborative Platform Culture in a Bank

Ben Linders — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:09:00 GMT

A platform is a collaboration system, not infrastructure. Culture follows structure: platform teams can build open support sessions, create super user awards for contributing developers, and establish shared open standards to grow an engineering mindset. Developers and product teams depend on a platform team, which in turn depends on application teams; to go forward, they need shared standards.

By Ben Linders

Podcast: Signals and Levers: Building Thriving Engineering Organizations

Elisabeth Hendrickson, Joel Tosi — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:05:00 GMT

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi about systems thinking as a lens for software delivery, the cultural "levers" leaders and teams can pull to shape organizations, and building thriving, sustainable teams amid AI-driven change.

By Elisabeth Hendrickson, Joel Tosi

Presentation: Teaching Engineers, Trusting AI: How Education Enabled Autonomous Code Review

Sarah Deitke — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Sarah Deitke discusses how Duolingo drives cultural AI adoption beyond tooling access. She explains their internal AI literacy workshops and observability dashboards, then shares a case study on redesigning code review using an automated PR risk-assessment bot. Deitke demonstrates how pairing targeted developer education with safe AI guardrails speeds up delivery without increasing defect rates.

By Sarah Deitke