You Know You Are Doing Things Right When…

• more and more people start to use your product, but you are not doing any direct marketing
• people who look like movie stars start to send in their fake CV:s to you
• you actually enjoy what you are doing
• you use the tools that solves the problem
• you actually deliver user value after each sprint
• agile is not a process, it is how you actually work
• people who speaks of ITIL automatically have to work one week with replying to movie stars.
• hierarchy is a word you learned about the hard way at your previous work
• you enhance the user experience and listen to the actual users
• architecture is part of everybody’s work, not a title
• usability is part of your customer experience focus and a responsibility of all involved in the product, not a title or expert role
• there are no titles
• the people you see when looking up are the actual people you work with
• you tune the user experience, not trying to revolutionize it
• people do high-fives and shout out over solved problems
• middle management still works at Ericsson
• you can do live changes, but choose not to
• you trust the people working with the product and do not need guidelines and processes for everything
• people who do not fit in the group is not promoted, they are either fired or feel that they should try new challenges
• you say yes more often than no to new ideas
• you really, really, really love your product and the ones using it
• you have a feeling that you are privileged to work with what you like and still get money for it
• you can try one thing and if it do not work out, change it back
• all who work at the office have admin rights on their computer
• you answer the question “What type of organization are you?” with “Rock and Roll”
• the people who work at the bank office next to your office looks at you in a way that indicates they do not like you and your type
• everyone has full insight in the numbers of your product
• everyone has equal shares of the company
• people come to work and share a new idea, every day
• creativity is part of your work, not the responsibility of a group of people
• people work in the projects they prefer to work in and can easily change projects if they do not enjoy the current one
• there are no meetings, you solve things with the people you work with on a daily basis, both short- and long-term solutions
• you celebrate records and highlight achievements on a regular basis
• there is only one level in the organizational hierarchy
• up to 20% of every employees working time is spent on R&D
• “corporate” is a swearing word
• Microsoft has nothing to do with something that actually is in proximity to your core business
• Oracle has nothing to do with something that actually is in proximity to your core business
• you are using a well tested and stable Open Source technology stack
• you contribute to Open Source projects
• there are a good mixture of people from different background, country, age, sex and experience
• people decorate the walls and the desks with things they like
• salary, benefits and friday beers are not the stuff that make you stay at the company
• pragmatic is not a word, it is how you actually solves things
• SWOT-analysis is something they do at the bank office next to you

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