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The 3 of us have all worked at a startup before. We don’t remember it being too terribly chaotic
and yet somehow we were still successful.
What do you think of when you hear that so-and-so company has a startup culture?
– Beer
– Ping Pong
– Beanbag chairs
– 80 hour weeks?
– Sweat equity?
– Sleeping in the office?
– Crazy/unrealistic expectations?
Lots of managers think that to get things done you need to create a sense of urgency. @testobsessed explains why it's more effective to create a sense of momentumhttps://t.co/m7ULvsnhXG
— Martin Fowler (@martinfowler) February 18, 2020
Links
http://testobsessed.com/2020/02/momentum-urgency/
Resources
Clarity First
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
Image from the 2018 Wikimedia Hackathon, May 18-20, 2018, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Mhollo / CC BY-SA).
“Tempting Time” by Animals As Leaders used with permissions – All Rights Reserved
An International Speaker, Author, and Microsoft MVP, John has been a professional developer since 1999. He has focused primarily on web technologies and currently focuses on C# and .NET Core in Azure. Clean code and professionalism are particularly important to him, as well as mentoring and teaching others what he has learned along the way.