Engineering Culture By Infoq

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Edith Harbaugh of Launch Darkly on the way she and her cofounder have deliberately engineered their organisation’s culture Why listen to this podcast: • A good engineering culture is one where there is a lot of respect for different people and roles • Start by good intent on behalf of your colleagues – everyone is doing their best • Be open to continually learning – mistakes will happen, learn from them in a blame-free way • Another aspect of respect is ensuring meetings are purposeful, have the right people involved, have a clear agenda and stay on time • To build mastery it’s OK to be bad at something in the beginning and deliberately get better • Sharing the reason why the customer chooses the product, rather than how much was earned from the sale, is motivational More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2LewoiU You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest