2 Engineering Culture & Practices

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[Verse 1]
In the world of engineering, culture leads the way
Agile principles guide us, not just what meetings say
Individuals over process, working software's key
Customer collaboration, responding to what we see

[Chorus]
Build the culture, build it strong
Code reviews and docs belong
Sprint and plan and test with care
Developer experience we share
A-D-R for decisions made
R-F-C when plans are laid
DORA metrics show the light
Engineering culture done right

[Verse 2]
Scrum and Kanban, Shape Up too, methodologies we choose
Story points or t-shirt size, or no estimates we use
Sprint planning brings us focus, velocity helps us learn
Technical debt we classify and time for fixes earn

[Chorus]
Build the culture, build it strong
Code reviews and docs belong
Sprint and plan and test with care
Developer experience we share
A-D-R for decisions made
R-F-C when plans are laid
DORA metrics show the light
Engineering culture done right

[Verse 3]
Pull requests kept nice and small, quick turnaround the goal
Code owners guide the process, quality's in our soul
Architecture Decision Records, R-F-Cs we write
Runbooks and onboarding guides make everything feel right

[Bridge]
Test pyramid shows the way
Unit tests and end-to-end
Integration in between
Pair programming when it helps
Not when it just makes pretend
T-D-D where it makes sense

[Verse 4]
Developer productivity, DORA shows us how
Deploy frequency and lead time, change failure rate right now
Mean time to recovery, SPACE framework too
Surveys track our happiness, N-P-S guides us through

[Chorus]
Build the culture, build it strong
Code reviews and docs belong
Sprint and plan and test with care
Developer experience we share
A-D-R for decisions made
R-F-C when plans are laid
DORA metrics show the light
Engineering culture done right

[Outro]
Self-service environments, tooling that's so clean
A-I assistance helping code, the best we've ever seen
Copilot and Cursor too, but security's the rule
Engineering culture strong makes every dev a jewel

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