Sat.Jul 20, 2019

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Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Cologne)

Sutter's Mill

Obligatory comment: The C++20 Eagle has wings. At noon today, July 20 2019, the ISO C++ committee completed its summer meeting in Cologne, Germany, hosted with thanks by Think-Cell, SIGS Datacom, SimuNova, Silexica, Meeting C++, Josuttis Eckstein, Xara, Volker Dörr, Mike Spertus, and the Standard C++ Foundation. As usual, we met for six days Monday through Saturday, and it was our biggest meeting yet with some 220 attendees.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model. On a positive note, both organisational models focus on having small yet productive independent cross-functional teams and there is nothing wrong to draw inspiration from either of these models when building your engineering organisation.