HCE Platform

Would you like to get actionable insights into your engineering culture in 2025?

Build a culture of Mastery, Autonomy, and Purpose

If you are not monitoring your engineering culture…

… how do you know that your investment in software engineering teams has the fertile ecosystem to yield optimal returns?

We’re busy working on a new platform for assessing the health of your engineering culture

Human-Centric Engineering are building a self-service platform for teams to assess, monitor, and improve their engineering culture.

The platform is centred the Engineering Culture Index, a tool we use in our consultancy practice. If you want early access to the platform, register your interest and you'll be part of our inner circle community who gets priority access and information.

With the right insights, every team can build a culture of Mastery, Autonomy, and Purpose.

The platform can show you:

  • The strongest points of your culture - things to lean on

  • The weakest areas of your culture - things to work on

  • Where engineers have inconsistent experiences

  • Underlying causes behind identified and potential issues

  • Whether issues arise at the organisational, team, or individual level

Build a culture of Mastery, Autonomy and Purpose…

… to optimise team performance, satisfaction, and longevity

How it works

  • Add your team

    Upload your team details to the platform

  • Take the survey

    Each member takes our Engineering Culture Index survey (20 mins each)

  • Get the report

    See your benchmarks and metrics, visuals and actionable insights

How it keeps working

  • Use pulse surveys

    Our Engineer’s Voice Slack app collects daily pulse data and feeds it into the HCE Platform

  • Repeat the full survey

    Survey again after 6-12 months to see change and progress, and get fresh insights

  • Track trends

    Track progress across multiple surveys and see realtime insights from pulse data

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Use the most powerful lever

The culture of an engineering team is the most powerful lever a leader has for impacting everything downstream. Software delivery and organisational performance are predicted by the underlying engineering culture.

Culture, by its emergent nature, defies accurate measurement. It is an intuitive ‘tacit knowing’ derived from our subjective experiences. Culture results from our collective underlying assumptions and worldviews and our experience of the interactions which ensue from acting on our beliefs and values.

So how do you “measure” engineering culture in order to manage it?

How do you know what to do and focus on to improve it?

You use the Human-Centric Engineering platform.

And build a culture of Mastery, Autonomy, and Purpose.

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About the Human-Centric Engineering Platform

The core of the HCE Platform is our Engineering Culture Index. This is not only an assessment and benchmarking tool but also a catalyst for creating the desire for a great culture, and the awareness of the points of leverage within the ecosystem so that engineers can lead the change they want to see.

Connected is the Engineer’s Voice, our free Slack app which gives engineers a voice, sharing their experiences and opinions on engineering culture and the wider tech industry.

Our team brings together decades of experience, study, and reflection comprising a blend of engineering expertise, technical leadership, and a fascination with the complexity and nuance of the sociological and psychological aspects of software development.

  • Developed by John and Simon at Human-Centric Engineering who are both experienced software engineers and engineering leaders. We feel this is vital for understanding the engineers’ experience and perspectives.

  • The Engineering Culture Index (ECI) has roots in the psychological framework of Self-Determination Theory, which emphasises the importance of Mastery, Autonomy, and Purpose for generating intrinsic motivation. The ECI has four sub-categories under each of these components, relating specifically to working life in a software team.

  • The survey questions for the Engineering Culture Index are open-sourced and available on Github. Feedback and suggestions are welcomed and encouraged. See: Engineering Culture Index on GitHub

  • We actively use the Engineering Culture Index in our consultancy practice. It is one of our most powerful tools for discovering patterns and revealing insights. We hope that by releasing the index as a platform we can help more engineering teams become more human-centric.

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