Some golden rules
Jedes Projekt und jede Firma tut gut daran gemeinsame Referenzpunkte (oder kulturelle Werte) zu definieren und diese auch zu leben. Warum? Well, long debate... Ein guter Einstieg (der harten Sorte) ist zum Beispiel Michael Foucault's Werk.
Für uns sind es ein paar einfache Regeln. Unwichtig ist, ob jemand die Regeln auswendig herbeten kann; wichtig ist, dass wir uns in diesem Framework bewegen (und eben nicht in einem andern).
Wie lauten also unsere Regeln:
Golden Rules - In case we get in trouble:
Rule 1 - Customer First
In case we have to judge commercial interest against user interests we will always decide in favor of the user interest.
Reason: If we get it right for the user, the user will honor the plattform and in turn the advertiser will come to us to find the user.Rule 2 - The solution is the team
Nobody knows it alone.
With thorough discussion we are able to get the best solution filtered out.Rule 3 - Long Term over Shortterminism
In case we have to judge long term interests against short term interests we will always decide in favor of the long term interests.
Reason: We are here for the long term, so let's behave that way.
And anyway in case we opt for a quick fix against better judgment or possibilty the bumerang will hit back sooner rather than later.Rule 4 - We're optimistic
The road is steep, yet we will make it!Rule 5 - Errors are ok, if...
We build something huge from scratch. So errors will inevitably happen. Nobody will be brought to justice for an error.
However, under two conditions only: One first tried to do the best and we may have a thorough review of what happened.
That is to say: No error twice.Rule 6 - Don't be evil
We assume that the other parties to the project are well intentioned and do the right thing.
In case not, back to Rule 2A sort of nearly self-evident: We introduced a couple of compulsory tools: Wiki for documentation, SVN for code, Jira for bugs, Skype for communication.
Welche Regeln kennt ihr?