1) The document discusses the importance of culture and frameworks in enabling success and mitigating risks of failure. It argues that culture provides shared values that practitioners respect and value. 2) Key aspects of culture discussed include embracing failure, celebrating both successes and failures, being motivated to take action and then celebrate outcomes, and offering help to others. 3) As the culture and its practitioners grow, the document emphasizes scaling carefully by communicating values, integrating new members, and allowing for failures as the culture adapts and transforms over time.

1. Engineering
Culture

2. What?
• We are human, and humans are social by nature,
every socialites have untold practices good or bad
which are not inherited by them via genome and
by which external world identify them as a cult or
tribe

3. Ahhh Crap!
• It is proven that socialites like to share and even on
net(facebook, google+, twitter …n)
• Culture is the framework for shared values
respected and valued by the practitioners of it

4. Culture! Damn! I need
success
• Socialites and humans in general love and like to
taste success at its core and in pursuit of it
• Culture act as an enabler of success but it does not
cause success, it work as a framework

5. Oh no! Yet Another
Framework
• Framework is an enabler or a tool to mitigate the
risks of known failure and so the culture is

6. Who provides the
framework?
• It’s you
• You know the best when you failed
• You know what sucks

7. Embrace failure
• Generally humans are taught how not to fail and
sometimes this process creates deep scars of fear of
failure in our mind
• Get rid of the fear factors for failing
• Celebrate failure because it helps you not to fail
again and enlighten you by the facts of what sucks
• Do not hide it embrace it and share it
• … It is always good and smarter to learn from others
failure
• Create fail-sheets and announce and share your
failures and context and be happy

8. Happiness
• We all want to be happy
• Happiness comes from celebration
• Celebrate whenever possible even a successful git
push could be celebrated
• Give yourself a treat it helps
• Life is short enjoy every bit of it, so every action you
execute is a candidate for celebration as you done
it for a cause and human with good intentions and
motivation always do stuff for a good cause.. so
celebrate it and create a joyous environment you
like to participate into

9. Motivation-Action-
Celebration
• Motivation-Action-Celebration are the agile
iteration of happiness for continuous delivery of help
towards the success

10. Help
• We are human and not machine, we have feelings
hence falls victim of emotions thus we need help at
times
• Become leader by offering help be the servant
leader
• Giving at first hand ensures the savings for future
when you might need it badly
• Offering help is practicing the knowledge you have
and to measure it against the context

11. Measure-data-facts
• Measure against your values
• Let your decisions comes from the measured-data
aka facts
• Let facts kick-in into your decision but you should
not concentrate on collecting it, take help of
automated tools or automate process to get it
collected for you

12. Embrace Automation
• Cult is all about practicing your culture even
without noticing it, let it be an automated process
induced in your act
• Put effort in automating your daily acts and refine it
continuously, it will become your characteristics
without any effort
• You are helping others in process automation by
writing software so start it at home first, walk the talk

13. You have a culture now
• Embrace failure
• Celebration is important even failures, it help
reduce the fear-factors and creates the platform
for ideation
• Enjoy the work, success will follow you
• Motivation-Action-Celebration help you achieve
your goal
• Offer help and be the servant leader
• Let decision comes from the fact, measure your
acts against the values you value
• Embrace automation even for simplest of acts you
practice

14. Valuables needs to be
protected
• So your culture
• Value your culture and you are the custodian of it
• Respect it, practice it and earn respect for it
• Walk the talk
• Your culture helps you to scale, as we all needs to
scale as we grow with time
• To scale you need more practitioner of culture to
become a more prominent cult

15. Scaling != hiring
• Scaling without capacity planning is not a wise
decision
• Fall back to the facts, identify your needs for scaling
• Identification of root cause is important to know
what you need to scale
• Plan the capacity your are looking at and why, you
will come up with numbers you need
• Simply adding resources does not work, plan for
assimilation and integration time with your culture
• Keep your 20% more time for offering help and
trouble-shooting(read grooming) phase

16. Scaling != hiring
• Communicate your values
• Provides visuals of your practices and processes, it help
in memorizing it instead of providing documents to read
• Finest of steels can only be produced under pressure, so
put your new resource under pressure and measure
where and when he snaps, you know the strength and
weakness now (load-test on staging server)
• Embrace failure help him/her get read of fear factors
• Guide him/her to work on weakness, be the servant
leader(performance tuning is always good with facts)
• Create short-term, mid-term and long-term measurable
goals for him/her and measure against your values

17. Nothing is fail-proof
• Be prepared to fail
• Need monitoring, so watch for signs
• Signals are everywhere we need to catch the right
signal at right time
• Fall back to your values, seen faltered, watch it, it
could be the sign
• Start fixing with you
• Then offer your help to others proactively
• Communicate and with empathy you will get the
root cause, we are humans

18. Agility
• There is nothing called perfect
• Be agile, change is inevitable so practice it
• Rinse-n-repeat is a continuous process

19. You have it
• You have the culture
• You need to protect it
• You need to scale with it
• You need to change it
• You need to transform it
• You own it
• You create the boundaries to help you not to fall in
pits
• You have the framework

20. ?
• Its you
• Its all about you
• All that matters is you

21. Thank You
Goutam Dey
@dgoutam