Forget
company
culture
Forget
company
culture
Forget
company
culture
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“...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 Suck
2. Do It in Public
3. 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
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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!