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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Harsh Sinha, CTO of TransferWise about deliberately designing organisational culture.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\u2022\tThe organisation is structured in lots of autonomous, independent teams each one of which is focused on meeting a specific customer need\n\u2022\tFor a startup the biggest competitive edge is speed, and this organisation structure supports and enables speed of decision making and responding to customer needs\n\u2022\tPrinciples such as weak code ownership allow rapid changes within clearly defined constraints\n\u2022\tWhile this may sound like a recipe for chaos it actually results in stronger ownership and better customer focus\n\u2022\tBetter decision making comes about because the people who make the decisions are the ones closest to the customer problems\nThe difference between software development and product engineering. Engineers are expected to be proactive and go deeper into understanding the customer problem, not just working from \n\nMore on this: \nQuick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2obRelB\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: http://bit.ly/2obRelB