Edith Harbaugh of Launch Darkly on Engineering a Good Engineering Culture

Published: July 20, 2018, midnight

b'In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Edith Harbaugh of Launch Darkly on the way she and her cofounder have deliberately engineered their organisation\\u2019s culture \\n\\nWhy listen to this podcast:\\n\\u2022\\tA good engineering culture is one where there is a lot of respect for different people and roles\\n\\u2022\\tStart by good intent on behalf of your colleagues \\u2013 everyone is doing their best\\n\\u2022\\tBe open to continually learning \\u2013 mistakes will happen, learn from them in a blame-free way\\n\\u2022\\tAnother aspect of respect is ensuring meetings are purposeful, have the right people involved, have a clear agenda and stay on time\\n\\u2022\\tTo build mastery it\\u2019s OK to be bad at something in the beginning and deliberately get better\\n\\u2022\\tSharing the reason why the customer chooses the product, rather than how much was earned from the sale, is motivational\\n\\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2LewoiU\\n\\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\\n\\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2LewoiU'