Held on 23 June 2022
Positive Engineering Culture For Fun and Profit
Imagine a tech team whose computers shut off at 5:01 PM every day--but they're super productive before then. A team that welcomes raw recruits without the right technical skills and teaches them everything they need to know with a slick, practised onboarding process. A team that makes all its code available to anyone in the world for free and supports it so well that every user pays happily for an enhanced license. A team that's so super-aligned to business value that it refuses to build speculative features without a clear path to profit.
If you wish your tech team were this polished, then it's cultural levers you need, not better Scrum or a shorter standup. I've seen and helped many engineering orgs achieve some of the above goals, but it's very rare to see a company that hits them all—one of the very few to achieve it is Haplo, the company my guest Ben Summers recently sold after phenomenal growth in the education sector.
Join me and Ben for a conversation that will include war stories (Ben's radical method for ensuring reasonable work hours), practical tips (how to use "stone soup" to make your onboard process self-improving), and challenges (could Haplo's culture scale beyond Ben and a small team?)
