Team culture is a collection of values, norms, and beliefs. It is the behaviours that are being rewarded, punished, and ignored. Team culture is the explicit and implicit social behaviours. It is the thousand little decisions that every person in the company makes every day. Healthy team culture is difficult and it is getting harder with the new ways of working. It requires active attention to planning and a great deal of work.
Here are some practical ideas from the Blackmill Toolbox for you to to try with your team to grow your culture today.
1. Define your engineering culture
Healthy cultures take time to evolve. It starts with acknowledging where you are now and where you want to be. Start by documenting your current reality. For example, write down how you currently collaborate and what your processes look like. What makes for a good pull request in your team? How, and when, do you deploy? What principles do you follow? Do you have coding standards? This will make the implicit behaviours in your culture explicit.
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