At Slack, every one of our processes and features has been designed with the primary goal of making Slack a workplace tool that feels human. We see ourselves as our users’ hosts, and we want them to ...

To design an effective software engineering organization that delivers business value, software engineering leaders should begin by understanding the IT operating model (ITOM) targeted by their CIO.

The terms "organization structure and design" and "organization architecture," while sounding similar, actually have very different meanings. The first term refers to structure in a metaphorical way ...

What are the five core principles of hardware/software co-design? How do these principles help build a geographically diverse engineering organization that can successfully develop complex solutions ...

Nadler, D., and Michael Tushman. "The Organization of the Future: Principles of Design for the 21st Century." Organizational Dynamics 28, no. 1 (Summer 1999): 45–60.

We catch up with experts who discuss the principles of design thinking and how it can help improve customer experience outcomes. Organizations that allow designers to act as business leaders and not ...

Reducing headcount is a sensitive topic. Nobody wants to do it, but sometimes business situations demand it. Perhaps a company has lost a significant customer and there is no sight of future work to ...

Editor's Note: Designing a robust hardware/firmware interface is not a simple process. It's no accident that engineers charged with this task are generally the more senior and experienced engineers on ...

A microservices architecture requires a carefully constructed group of individual components that work together with efficiency. Modular components depend on each other to build a larger application.