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Next Gen Startup Cultures INNOVATING AS YOU GROW > whoami Jim - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Next Gen Startup Cultures INNOVATING AS YOU GROW > whoami Jim - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Next Gen Startup Cultures INNOVATING AS YOU GROW > whoami Jim Plush Sr Director of Engineering, CrowdStrike Employee 30 of > 500 Member of the Culture Team @jimplush > whois > whois Endpoint security > whois
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Jim Plush
- Sr Director of Engineering, CrowdStrike
- Employee 30 of > 500
- Member of the Culture Team
- @jimplush
> whoami
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> whois
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- Endpoint security
> whois
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- Endpoint security
- Cloud based, realtime detection & prevention
> whois
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- Endpoint security
- Cloud based, realtime detection & prevention
- DNC Breach Attribution
> whois
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- Endpoint security
- Cloud based, realtime detection & prevention
- DNC Breach Attribution
- High Scale
- 1M+ Inbound events per second
- Multi Petabytes under management
> whois
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What Is Culture?
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What Is Culture?
- How business gets done
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What Is Culture?
- How business gets done
- What happens when no one is looking
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That’s My Job?
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That’s My Job?
- You are the culture influencers
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That’s My Job?
- You are the culture influencers
- Don’t be a passenger
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The Early Years
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The Early Years
- Next Gen?
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The Early Years
- Next Gen?
- Distributed from the start
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The Early Years
- Next Gen?
- Distributed from the start
- Culture from the start
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Culture Team
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Culture Team
- Phrase mission & define values
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Culture Team
- Phrase mission & define values
- How will we incentivize behaviors?
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Company Culture Is The By-Product Of Consistent Behavior. What You Do Always Wins Against What You Intend To Do.
- Jason Fried
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Company Culture Is The By-Product Of Consistent Behavior. What You Do Always Wins Against What You Intend To Do.
- Jason Fried
- What can we learn from the past?
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Company Culture Is The By-Product Of Consistent Behavior. What You Do Always Wins Against What You Intend To Do.
- Jason Fried
- What can we learn from the past?
- Structure environment to avoid past mistakes
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Contributors To Poor Culture
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Contributors To Poor Culture
- Poor management practices
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Contributors To Poor Culture
- Poor management practices
- Lack of autonomy
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Contributors To Poor Culture
- Poor management practices
- Lack of autonomy
- Too much process, too many meetings
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In Practice
Structure People
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In Practice
Structure People
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People Don’t Leave Companies, They Leave Managers
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People Don’t Leave Companies, They Leave Managers
- Skip Level 1:1s
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People Don’t Leave Companies, They Leave Managers
- Skip Level 1:1s
- Multiple sign offs on promotions
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People Don’t Leave Companies, They Leave Managers
- Skip Level 1:1s
- Multiple sign offs on promotions
- Managers don’t control tasks
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- Joi Ito
Want To Increase Innovation? Lower The Cost Of Failure.
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- Invention != Innovation
- Joi Ito
Want To Increase Innovation? Lower The Cost Of Failure.
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- Invention != Innovation
- Focus on automation
- Joi Ito
Want To Increase Innovation? Lower The Cost Of Failure.
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- Invention != Innovation
- Focus on automation
- Avoid Process
- Joi Ito
Want To Increase Innovation? Lower The Cost Of Failure.
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- Invention != Innovation
- Focus on automation
- Avoid Process
- 5 Whys
- Joi Ito
Want To Increase Innovation? Lower The Cost Of Failure.
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Meetings Are A Symptom Of A Bad Organization. The Fewer The Meetings The Better
- Peter Drucker
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Meetings Are A Symptom Of A Bad Organization. The Fewer The Meetings The Better
- Peter Drucker
- Question all meetings
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Meetings Are A Symptom Of A Bad Organization. The Fewer The Meetings The Better
- Peter Drucker
- Question all meetings
- No Meeting Thursday
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Creativity Is Thinking Up New Things. Innovation Is Doing New Things
- Theodore Levitt
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Creativity Is Thinking Up New Things. Innovation Is Doing New Things
- Think Week
- Theodore Levitt
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Software Development Life Cycle How We Build Things
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Single, Prioritized List
Customer Feature Foo Infrastructure Project Bar Platform Project Baz
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Customer Feature Foo
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Customer Feature Foo context
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Customer Feature Foo context
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Customer Feature Foo context
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Customer Feature Foo context
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Customer Feature Foo context
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Customer Feature Foo context feasibility
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Customer Feature Foo context feasibility
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Customer Feature Foo context feasibility
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Customer Feature Foo context feasibility
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Customer Feature Foo context feasibility
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Customer Feature Foo context feasibility
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Customer Feature Foo context feasibility Platform Bar context feasibility Customer Feature Baz context feasibility Small Projects / Live Site
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In Practice
Structure People
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The Urge To Excel And The Urge To Lead Aren’t The Same. Sometimes I Think They May Be Opposites.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
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The Urge To Excel And The Urge To Lead Aren’t The Same. Sometimes I Think They May Be Opposites.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dual Management / Engineering Path
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The Urge To Excel And The Urge To Lead Aren’t The Same. Sometimes I Think They May Be Opposites.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dual Management / Engineering Path
- Same comp ranges for ICs and managers
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The Urge To Excel And The Urge To Lead Aren’t The Same. Sometimes I Think They May Be Opposites.
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Dual Management / Engineering Path
- Same comp ranges for ICs and managers
- IC growth up to Senior VP
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The Only Thing Worse Than Training Employees And Losing Them Is To Not Train Them And Keep Them.
- Zig Ziglar
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The Only Thing Worse Than Training Employees And Losing Them Is To Not Train Them And Keep Them.
- Zig Ziglar
- Near unlimited book budget
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The Only Thing Worse Than Training Employees And Losing Them Is To Not Train Them And Keep Them.
- Zig Ziglar
- Near unlimited book budget
- Budget for training, conferences
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The Only Thing Worse Than Training Employees And Losing Them Is To Not Train Them And Keep Them.
- Zig Ziglar
- Near unlimited book budget
- Budget for training, conferences
- Opportunity across projects
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We Are A Distributed Team, Not Remote Workers
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We Are A Distributed Team, Not Remote Workers
- Inclusion
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We Are A Distributed Team, Not Remote Workers
- Inclusion
- Open Communication
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We Are A Distributed Team, Not Remote Workers
- Inclusion
- Open Communication
- On-boarding
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How Do You Grade Culture?
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How Do You Grade Culture?
- Surveys
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How Do You Grade Culture?
- Surveys
- Long timers view
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How Do You Grade Culture?
- Surveys
- Long timers view
- Exit Surveys
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How Do You Grade Culture?
- Surveys
- Long timers view
- Exit Surveys
- Retention Comparisons
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How Do You Grade Culture?
- Surveys
- Long timers view
- Exit Surveys
- Retention Comparisons
- Referral Rates
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Takeaways
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Takeaways
- Start small
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Takeaways
- Start small
- Define your values
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Takeaways
- Start small
- Define your values
- What drives people away from those values
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Everything That You Want In This World Is Just Beyond Your Comfort Zone
- Robert Allen
@jimplush