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# Team Culture # Team Culture
By default culture flows from the top down most of the time. And for a team you By default culture flows from the top down most of the time. And for any team
are managing you are the source of that flow. You have an outsize impact on you are manage, you are the source of that flow. You have an outsize impact on
your teams culture. If you are negative then your team will tend to take on a your teams culture. If you are negative then your team will tend to take on a
negative attitude. If you are positive then your team will tend to take on a negative attitude. If you are positive then your team will tend to take on a
positive attitude. I've been thinking a lot lately about what you can do to positive attitude. I've been thinking a lot lately about what you can do to
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## Identity ## Identity
What is your teams engineering identity. Are you a quality at all costs team or Identity forms an outsize part of your teams culture. What do you need your
are a ship it and fix it if it breaks in prod kind of team. Do you value unit teams engineering identity to be? Should you be a quality at all costs team or
testing or do you get more value from Manual QA? Is CI/CD in your DNA or are are a ship it and fix it if it breaks in prod kind of team? Should you value
weekly deployments better for your team? What about developer tooling? Is it unit testing or do you get more value from Manual QA? Is CI/CD in your DNA or
everyone for themselves? Is tooling first class part of your teams identity. Do are weekly planned deployments better? What about developer tooling? Is it
you tend toward build or buy? everyone for themselves or is tooling a first class part of your teams
identity. In your technology choices do you tend toward build or buy?
> Your goal is to be in a position where you don't need to micro-manage your team > Your goal is to be in a position where you don't need to micro-manage your team
You should be clear about your teams identity. This will give guide rails for To be effective you need to be clear about your teams identity. This will give
your developers and team members. They will know what mental framework they guide rails for your developers and team members. They will know what mental
should use when making decisions. This will free you from having to be involved framework they should use when making decisions. It frees you from having to be
in the minutia. Your goal is to be in a position where you don't need to involved in the minutia. Your goal is to be in a position where you don't need
micro-manage your team. to micro-manage your team.
## Narrative ## Narrative
Your goal should be to craft a narrative that is positive, believable, As a manager you need to provide narrative to your team that is positive,
consistent, and evolving. believable, consistent, and evolving.
Your narrative should be positive.You don't want a narrartive that is framed as The narrative should be positive. You don't want a narrartive that is framed as
us vs them. Something I've seen before in engineering organizations. You want us vs them. Something I've seen before in engineering organizations. You want
it to focus on how the team can be productive and make the business successful. it to focus on how the team can be productive and make the business successful.