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People, Culture, and Diversity

Articles, podcasts, talks, and more about People, Culture, and Diversity.

The Missing Half of Your Data Strategy

In order to stay competitive, a modern data architecture is essential. It enables sound decisions and data-driven development at all levels, from strategic choices to feature prioritisation and buy-or-build decisions. The ability to collect, understand and act on data is no longer optional. Many organisations recognise this and are investing in data mesh initiatives and similar approaches. Through modern infrastructure and self-service platforms, they aim to democratise access to corporate data. However, these platforms often fail to fulfil their potential because people still do not know how to work with data or what value they can derive from it. For a successful data strategy, this has to change. Let’s talk about data literacy.

Enabling Stakeholders as a Success Factor

Sociotechnical architectures consider both technical and human-organizational aspects and promote their effective collaboration. To ensure the successful design and implementation of these systems, it is crucial to actively involve stakeholders and address their interests. In this article, we explore why enabling stakeholders represents a key function in sociotechnical projects and how you can implement this approach effectively.

Internal Development Platforms

Shift Down Instead of Shift Left

How Much Thinking Can a Team Handle?

The term Cognitive Load has become a common reference point in recent discussions about team structures, roles, and task distribution in IT organizations. However, these discussions often fail to distinguish between the different purposes of IT organizations and frequently rely on an oversimplified concept of Cognitive Load.

Socio-Technical Architectures: Informality from Mining to Today

Informal structures are hard to spot – but they can make or break a technical solution. Sociotechnical systems show why that matters, and what mining has to do with building apps.

Don’t Forget the People

When Architectural Changes Become a Change Project

Perfect solution for legacy code

This article is about people who are passionate about improving legacy systems. They are motivated to constantly reduce technical debt to ensure that software systems remain expandable in the long term. Prejudices and stereotypes in our industry prevent us from making the best possible use of these people’s potential.

How to bootstrap a tech conference with a 100% women+ speaker lineup

A tech conference focused on data and AI in the midst of a hype around machine learning, and LLMs in particular. Fair enough. But what we had in mind when planning the first edition of the Women+ in Data and AI summer festival in 2023 went beyond the latest trends in data engineering, machine learning, data science, and MLOps. We wanted to celebrate the excellence of women+ in the field. And to take it a step further, we wanted to provide our speakers and attendees with a safe and supportive environment - not only for learning, but also for networking and personal growth. Did we succeed?

Drawers for Product Owners

One role, different meanings

How to prepare a (not only technical) talk

As I want to improve on giving valuable (conference) talks this year, I like to introduce my current four-phase approach to preparing these. Because when you intend to improve things, it is always a good idea to start with summarizing the current state. From there you can find out what is already good and where there is room for improvement. I would love to hear / read about your tricks and ideas!

How I regained concentration and focus

For years, I enthusiastically produced content: books, articles, blog posts, and talks – averaging a book and a half plus five articles per year. Since about 2020, my productivity has plummeted – leaving me totally frustrated. There were no external causes, even the pandemic didn’t affect me, thanks to a nice home office and online work options — so no excuses. To find a way out of the misery, I put my own working habits to the test – and diagnosed a massive loss of concentration.

We Are Developers World Congress 2022 in Berlin

Our Experience Report

INNOQ and Family

Is it possible to successfully combine a family and a consulting career? Here at INNOQ we think so. Three of our employees report on how and why this works well.

What tracks do we leave behind with technology?

Bei INNOQ setzen wir uns immer mehr mit KI und Machine Learning auseinander, allerdings mit ihrem sinnvollen Einsatz bei unseren Kunden und Projekten. Beste Voraussetzungen also für einen spannenden Diskurs.

INNOQcon Remote Edition 2020

Virtual conferences – why go

Remote work

Last week we switched INNOQ to 100% remote work. The reason for this radical (or radical-looking) step was the spread of the novel Corona virus SARS-CoV-2, which needs to be contained. In concrete terms, this means that all our consultants will temporarily work exclusively in the home office.

Remote Mob Programming

Remote Mob Programming is an exciting working model for software developers who enjoy working in their home office as well as in a team.

Media Art Opens Up New Perspectives

INNOQ Digital Art Edition 01

A day full of Clojure - organizing the first German ClojureBridge workshop

During the last years a lot of initiatives focusing on increasing diversity in IT and getting kids into IT have emerged. Last weekend the first German ClojureBridge workshop took place in Solingen. Another small but important step towards a diverse IT world.

Agile meets Architecture 2026

Stefan Tilkov