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Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
Healthy teams can disagree with one another but still grab a beer at the end of the day. They encourage challenging ideas but being inclusive and non judgmental in doing so. At least in my experience. #DevDiscuss
Legit just spent an hour and a half on the phone with a colleague while I took notes and it was rewarding and I learned a lot and there was no resentment about training etc. #DevDiscuss
#DevDiscuss healthy teams are mutual respect and appreciation.
I know what I know. You know what you know. What we know is valuable.
We are all human, we all make mistakes.
Let's grow and learn together, and make something great as we do.
I can say when we made https://t.co/lWepprFqmW into a real company, we had a chance to make some choices based on some past experience. We're faaaaaaar from perfect, but I'm glad we did. I'll share a couple small things in this thread. #DevDiscuss
Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
We identified a few unhealthy scenarios and preemptively named and addressed them: One is "butt in seat syndrome". It's when you sit in your chair until 5:30 or 6 or whenever other people leave even if you are totally burnt out. #DevDiscuss
If you need to go home, go home!
We also have flexible work hours and we preemptively made an effort to enforce this as being okay with a sort of "no apologizing for being late" rule. This doesn't apply for meetings, but for the work day. If we say you can come in whenever, we mean it! #DevDiscuss
What makes for a healthy team? Really comes down to one major thing. Caring about the work. If you care about the work you'll respect your co-workers, your clients/consumers, the product. you'll constantly better yourself, and you'll respect your work/life balance.
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Everyone is working together and supporting each other with the common goals/objective always on people's minds. There are clear rules the community/team is expected to follow and they are enforced to help keep the focus on what needs to be accomplished. #devdiscuss
Open communication is a big one for me. This goes for teams, communities, relationships, and your career.
Open communication means youâre willing to talk to yourself about your career, what youâre happy with, and what you donât like #DevDiscuss
Happy and healthy teams and orgs have a free flow of information between everyone. Nobody withholds anything so they can use it to "one-up" someone else later. People feel free to teach and share what they learned without feeing unwelcome.
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Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
Healthy teams cultivate a culture of safety and non-judgement where people don't feel anxious or self-conscious that they will misstep or look foolish. People feeling comfortable and unafraid to share their ideas and communicate is critical to a high-functioning team #DevDiscuss
If you arenât honest with yourself, itâs harder to grow, harder to find the right place for yourself, and harder to be who youâre meant to be #DevDiscuss
I like this one a lot. To me, it means we recognize that everyone has a unique set of knowledge and experiences. Everyone brings something to the table. #DevDiscuss
Team: Open, transparent, egos are checked at the door, and willingness to help out with any task
Community: Considerate, and willingness to put skin in the game.
Career: balanced, pursuit of a goal deemed worthy by you (that can change over time)
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Lots of thoughts here...
Teams:
* everyone feels like their ideas are heard and considered.
* The culture is inclusive and the team is diverse.
* People have appropriate credit for their work
* People are allowed to work in the way best for them.
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Three things kill happy teams.
1. Passive-aggressiveness in any form
2. Laziness/lack of passion for the work
3. Taking unfair advantage of good workplace flexibility, ie flexible hours.
(4. Not taking advantage of good workplace flexibility to prove a point)
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Agreed. And those ideas are considered, not instantly dismissed because someone else thinks itâs obviously a bad idea or a bad thing to do. If someone has already explored that idea, take the time to share your explorations. #DevDiscuss
Communication, respect of others' point of views and shared passion.
My best environnement yet is n'y crurent internship, truly a good experience. #DevDiscuss
Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
#DevDiscuss it leads onto appreciating general diversity more. Greater diversity == wider viewpoints and perspectives.
This, in turn, leads to a greater variety of approaches to solving any given problem, which means more choices, and a greater chance of finding an "optimal" one.
Collaboration! Every week at work we have a call just for developers where we discuss a coding problem that we are struggling with. We (senior devs, junior devs) all try to help each other out with no judgement. #DevDiscuss
Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
What make a place healty are the person's in it, if someone has a bad attitude all the enviorment turns ugly and toxic â ď¸
My actual env is pretty nice, nothing to say about it đ¤
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I love that you mentioned how ideas should be heard and considered. Thatâs a big thing that can kill open communication. If peopleâs ideas get dismissed instantly, those ideas will flow less and less. Bad for the team. #DevDiscuss
Healthy: Opportunity to learn, improve, and grow. Support from management and peers. Feeling of accomplishment.
Unhealthy: Sense of obligation, fear. Excessive blaming and CYA. Disassociation of management. Redundancy.
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Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
Community:
A lot of the ideas are the same, my biggest experience with this is with @art_code_dc. We wanted it to be for artists, coders, and every combination of the two. So, we made our mission statement in accordance with that.
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Something healthy but scary is having well-defined rules/restrictions.
For a common example: flexible hours. I've had tons of companies tell me in interviews "yeah we're fairly flexible with hours", but where's the line drawn?
Can I consistently work 7a-3p?
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Support. Empathy. Openness. Ability to come together when one person faces adversity. A desire to accomplish a similar mission and to support others along in the journey. #devdiscuss
"People are allowed to work in the way best for them."
I can't tell you how huge this is. Managers trying to force what they think works on a team is a main cause of break down.
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I believe healthy team culture revolves around:
* Communication and the ability to be open and voice thoughts without being judged
* Diversity in both thoughts and people. Group think is real and can be very toxic
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Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
Also, we worked really hard on making a strong code of conduct with multiple ways to report violations. We added expected behavior and unacceptable behavior, so both sides are covered.
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For me, it depends on the types of relationships you have with people on the team. I can see how certain things could lead to people feeling excluded. #DevDiscuss
I have also seen that healthy teams don't rely on heroics. Things get done because everyone trusts one another to do their part, in whatever way works best for them. #DevDiscuss
Community culture should be all about inclusivity. I can not tell you how many meetups I've gone to where I feel like the outsider because everyone already has their groups and huddle together and don't let people in.
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Nope. Some people are late to meetings when they shouldn't be, including myself. Hard to say if this is because of the flexibility though.
We're a small team, so easier for us to say, but I've seen other small teams that already have culture problems. #DevDiscuss
Career culture: make sure you find people who support you. Whether that be you're working through a problem and need help, it's been a bad day and you need a happy hour, or whatever support means to you. #DevDiscuss
Totally agree -- people will stop giving their opinions and input if they feel like it doesn't matter. Plus it breeds resentment and all sorts of other issues.
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Adding new people into the conversation is a good way to get out of that group think cycle or not get into it in the first place. Finding people who aren't afraid of playing devil's advocate is also a good idea. #DevDiscuss
I agree with you, people makes the environment.
You could have a job with more money or ps4 to play with or whatever you want, but if you donât have friends to talk about or share those things it doesnât matter
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@_s_farias, @ThePracticalDev, @djrodrigoMAD, @knnwulf
One of the healthiest environments I've been part of was a start-up in the public broadcasting space. Never had enough money. Occasional issues with meeting payroll. But it wasn't toxic. We all pulled together to make it work. No room for slackers. We were vested.
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Healthy teams strive to foster real trust, not just geniality. They communicate and define clear goals together. Teammates have a stake in each other's successes. They confront problems directly, but with empathy. #DevDiscuss
Openness and honesty is a tough one. I hope that if Iâm honest with others that theyâll be honest with me. It gets more and more challenging the more times you get burned. Still, I try to remain positive. #DevDiscuss
I always pull from my early startup days when thinking about healthy teams as well. I know it's not universal, but being employee 1-10 at a company shows you how teams can really rally together. #DevDiscuss
I work at a company of around 500 in our office we all have flex hours (and unlimited vacation), and I've seen 2 people over the course of my 4 years here abuse it. Granted we've had flex time for like 18 years so that might have been different back in the day. #DevDiscuss
#team striking a balance of transparency, frequency, and respect when it comes to communication.
#career Not being too idealistic about how things "should be". Start with the tools and situations you have, not the ones you don't.
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Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
I've always seen abuse of flex time as a symptom of a different problem. If you don't care to fix the other problem, it's easy to blame flex time itself. #DevDiscuss
Agreed. Flex time is something I value very highly in a company. After working in startups and smaller companies for a few years I have learned I enjoy working from where I can get the most stuff done. That isn't always sitting in a cubicle. #DevDiscuss
I've really appreciated having both scheduled times to discuss ideas and an environment to have impromptu discussions. I need outlets for my ideas, and the mix of the two have been đ
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Yes! There are days where I know I'm no longer useful and my looking at Reddit or something like that at work is definitely NOT helping.
Go home. Recharge. Kill it in the morning, boo. #DevDiscuss
We identified a few unhealthy scenarios and preemptively named and addressed them: One is "butt in seat syndrome". It's when you sit in your chair until 5:30 or 6 or whenever other people leave even if you are totally burnt out. #DevDiscuss
If you need to go home, go home!
That seems like a great way to ensure ideas are heard. Listening is hard if you donât practice it. Empathetic listening is even harder. Itâs easy to fall in love with your own voice #DevDiscuss
@bitforth might be able to provide you some advice on building a community. I know he has done a great job of fostering community here in Charlotte. #DevDiscuss
What makes for an unhappy team/environment/career? Shit like this. Answer a puzzle and get the best offers.
I'd never in a million years work for anyone that took this kind of thing seriously.
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Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
Time for the #DevDiscuss Twitter chat!
Tonight's topic is: Healthy cultures.
Let's start with some kickoff questions:
- What makes for a healthy:
- team?
- community?
- career?
- What's the best environment you've been a part of?
Let's talk!
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Healthy team: managers who trust their employees and don't micromanage. Guidelines defining communication expectations. Leaders who have their employees' best interests in mind. #DevDiscuss
