Why

culture

?

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New member learn from 

your culture 

not from

 any of your team member

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culture of

 talking about your _ at lunch time

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So What's 
culture
?

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culture = set of mindsets

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culture 

vs 

rules

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Both 

culture & rules 

produce 

behaviors

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Rule of 

arriving at office before 8am 

vs 

culture of coming to office late

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strong 

culture 

what does it look like?

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Open  

to change that improves it, 

resistant  

to radical change that harms it

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strong culture

Self-selecting

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Creating 

your culture, 

how?

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Create environment 

to grow desired behaviors

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if you don't build your own culture, someone else will

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100% autonomy 

doesn't 

produce strong culture

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good 

software development team 

culture

which we hope you try to build them :P

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Start with yourself

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direct feedback

• Gossip?
  
• Fear of confrontation?
  
• Violent communication?
  

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transparency

builds trust

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integrity

the only way to be respected

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Prioritization

You don't have time to do everything

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Boss 

as a

 team member

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Minimum 
standardization 

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cross Pollenation

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team 

chooses 

team members

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ownership

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focus on 

goal 

not solution

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as you 

already noticed...

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we reached this slide 

without ...

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agile

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