In order to have agility with a solid technical core, a small, shared Software Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE) (aka Guild or Practice) and a voluntary, open-to-all Community of Practice (CoP) work well, per Pattern 4.1. The CoE is not a Center of Employment—quite the opposite. It is a small team that is there to support the engineering specialists in the organization who are aligned to value streams, own the software engineering principles for the firm, advise on practices, determine the minimum viable guardrails, catch bubbled up impediments, remove those impediments from the teams,
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