your company culture is awesome, but company culture is a lie
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All Things Open 2014 - Day 2 Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 Pamela Vickers Software Developer with Big Nerd Ranch, Atlanta Rails Girls Business Your Company Culture is Awesome (But is Company Culture a Lie?) Find more by Pamela here: https://speakerdeck.com/pwnelaTRANSCRIPT
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Your Company Culture is “Awesome”
(But is company culture a lie?)
All Things Open 2014 Pamela O. Vickers, @pwnela
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“Company Culture”
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Acme Co. #1“useful, funny, cool”
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Acme Co. #2“unique”
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Acme Co. #3“best culture in town”
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Acme Co. #3 (cont.)“Call of Duty”
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The “best culture in town” sounds a lot like...
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Acme Co. #4“ping pong”
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Which reminds me...
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Acme Co. #5“wtf”
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Acme Co. #6“extended hours, as needed”
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Acme Co. #7“code quality, testing, peer reviews, collaboration"
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Acme Co. #8“happy developers”
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“great"
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“awesome"
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“best in town"
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“The Most Important Optimization: Happiness”
by Ernie Miller
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PERMAMartin Seligman
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Ppositive emotion
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Eengagement
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Rrelationships
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Mmeaning
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Aachievement
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Ppositive emotion
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“How Perks Can Divide Us”
by Melissa Santos & Rafe Colburn
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
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P == ERMA
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Eengagement
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Mmeaning
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Aachievement
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Eengagement
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Mmeaning
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Aachievement
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“but”
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bad communicationkills engagement
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bad/unavailable toolskills engagement
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impossible deadlineskills engagement, prevents achievement
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boring domainno meaning, kills engagement
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ambiguous ethical domainno (good) meaning,
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“no one is going to use this”no meaning, no engagement, no achievement
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“The life of a programmer is mostly a never-ending
struggle.”
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“learning new things…”
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“…battling against our own ignorance.”
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“If you write code, you will struggle.”
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“…without getting (too) frustrated.”
Aaron Hillegass
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Engagement Meaning Achievement
challenging challenging interesting
“Has a degree of complexity”
“Is autonomous”
inspirational innovative innovative practical
community-building beneficial
epic important
finite finite short
successful “clear relationship between work and
reward”
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E + M == A == (more)P
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(more letter math)
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A - (E + M)== ❌ == 😿
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(E + M) > ☕
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“but"
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Does the product owner respond to questions and/or requests in a
reasonable time frame?
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Does the product owner respect the developing
team members?
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Does the product owner appreciate and value the work done by the developing team?
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Does the product owner follow (within reason) the process
outlined by the developing team?
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Is the product owner pleasant to work with in
general?
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And do we, as the developers, have the resources needed to to move the project forward?
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Rrelationships
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Things That Suck™
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“fine”
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“…people are still going to hesitate to talk about
the tough stuff.””Keith Sparkjoy
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The Five Whys
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“The car won’t start.”
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“The car won’t start.”“Why?”
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“The battery is dead.”
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“The battery is dead.”“Why?”
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“The alternator isn’t working.”
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“The alternator isn’t working.”
“Why?”
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“The alternator belt wasn’t replaced.”
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“The alternator belt wasn’t replaced.”
“Why?”
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“The car isn’t being maintained well.”
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“The car isn’t being maintained well.”
“Oh.”
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“but”
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Acme Co. #7“code quality, testing, peer reviews, collaboration"
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Acme Co. #7“We look for people who are really smart, really nice and
who want to solve big problems…”
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💥boom💥
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💥boom💥
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You get the idea.
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👏👏👏
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👍deliberate culture👍
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👎passive culture👎
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“awesome”
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Thank you.
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Pamela O. Vickers @pwnela
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