Work out your own engineering culture

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Hi everyone
The next posts I will take you with me, creating a engineering culture for my organisation. We are a 2500 employee insurance company where the IT section is about 400 people includes all services, in development we are about 200 employees. I think you already know the popular engineering culture videos from spotify, Henrik Kniberg
A lot of other organisation have also a short brief engineering culture in a one pager form. My goal is to work something out for our organisation.
I belief this is helping the people identifying with the organisation. It is a good communication medium and shows smart and short the way we work together.

As first action we held a workshop with all Scrum Master, we where around 20, to go into the theme and discussion with each other. The videos of Henrik we toke for inspiration and afterwards we held a World Café with for themes.

  • Ile of ideas
  • Valley of values
  • Mountain of principles
  • Track of practices
With this themes we tried to show up what we already have, what we dont't have, what we like, what we dislike. We also discussed about possible visualization of our engineering culture.
This only 2h workshop was quite productive and all participants where satisfied. Now it is a Core team in charge to define the next steps. We don't know yet exactly how we move forward but there are plenty of ideas.

Have you done something like this already?
Do you have any suggestions to us?
Do you had any problems with it?

If you are interested what we are going to do? Stay on this channel or follow me on twitter @IndyMueller.


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