According to Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim’s Accelerate, a generative culture and team experimentation predict software delivery and organizational performance. Generative culture relies less on hierarchy and power and focuses more on performance and trust. What do generative culture and team experimentation have in common? They both rely on a community of highly-skilled … Continue reading What is Our Culture, and What Do We Want it to be?
Category: Leadership
The Culture of an Agency: A New Role
WillowTree is an organization that has absolutely exploded with growth over the last 7 years, since I started here as an intern in 2016. At the time, we were at about 150 people in the entire company, and now we're eclipsing 1,300. With this growth has obviously come change. Information is harder to disseminate, and … Continue reading The Culture of an Agency: A New Role
What even is Staff Engineering? A Series
One of the biggest reasons the title of “Staff Engineer” is so hard to wrap up in one quick explanation is because it entails such a wide scope.