- 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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