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Forget company culture
Forget company culture
Forget company culture
Minifig Assembly by Andrew aBecraft, on Flickr
“...it kind of doesn't really matter what people do, given that ultimately you're the one who's gotta be the animus. You're the
one who's actually going to have to go ship, right?...
WHat COULDN’T YOu SHIP?!
… If we really, really are honest with ourselves there’s not really that much
stuff we can't ship because other people.” - Merlin Mann
Create your own work
culture*
* You don’t need to ignore the culture of your company, just don't let it hold you from to be the professional that you are.
This is my culture!
Mission: To destroy frontiers between cultures and people through knowledge and improve the world.
1. Learn from mistakes
2. Learn from other
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their successes
“1. Embrace the Suck2. Do It in Public3. Pick Stuff That Matters”
- Jeff Atwood
and failures
“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.” - Andy Grove
By Konstantin Lanzet (CPU Collection Konstantin Lanzet)
3. Keep your mind open
4. Challenges are opportunities to grow
5. Limitations are a source of creativity
6. Perfectionism is rubbish, there’s no room for improvement in something
perfect
7. Remembe he B P u e
8. Kaizen
9. Think! About Your Work
10. Don't let fear hold you back
11. Collaborate
12. Communication is the key
13. Provide Options, not lame excuses
14. Don't point fingers
Mr Butterfly on finger by Tatyana A., on Flickr
15. Save your pride for your projects
16. Embrace differences
17. Agile and Lean aren't methodologies, they are culture
18. Leadership is not about power is about responsibility
By Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium (Louvre Pyramid Uploaded by russavia) [CC BY-SA 2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
19. Think big, act small and see from the top-down view
20. Plan for the worst, expect to fail, spot problems, but relax everything
will be okay
21. Don’t forget ideas, write them down, share
22. Keep the flow
24. Be a Catalyst for Change
25. Question everything
26. Nothing is static or final (except in programming)
27. Refactor Early, Refactor Often
28. Work smart then work hard
29. Don't waste time, it is the most valuable resource
30. Languages aren't religion!
31. Never stop learning
PRACTICES
Learning weekends
Take a hour per week to walk around, meet people and collaborate.
Hackathons
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Hackerspace
Game nights
Dojos
Use 10-25% of your free time to
work in a pet project
Dogfooding
Give/
Attend
Talks
So… What is your culture?
Thanks!
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