Inefficient software development practices often fly beneath the radar. A poorly configured pipeline or a missing security check might seem like a negligible local inconvenience, but at scale, these tiny fractures accumulate into ever-growing financial loss and an inability to innovate. Traditionally, organizations try to solve this with top-down standardization that looks great on paper but falls apart in practice. How can we raise awareness of foundational practices and ensure our engineering standards are actually useful to the teams building the software?
True quality is a "layer cake" that requires input from various perspectives—SREs, Security, Architecture, and the team members actually delivering innovation to customers.
In this highly interactive workshop, participants will experience a proven facilitation framework designed to bring together different perspectives and engineering teams. Through solo brainstorming exercises, participants will generate objective, quality criteria throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). During our "Mix & Match" rounds, cross-functional groups will stress-test, refine, and debate these criteria, ensuring no hidden gaps exist.
You will leave not only with a foundational set of stress-tested standards, but with a practical, crowd-sourced methodology that you can immediately apply to kick-start continuous improvement and evolve the engineering standards within your own organization.
