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title: Startup Culture List
created_date: 2025-01-14
updated_date: 2025-01-14
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# Startup Culture List
- Decriminalize Mistakes: Decriminalize mistakes so that teams surface them without hesitation and you can learn from them. A mistake you don't learn from penalizes your organization twice. (Page 227 in [[More Effective Agile by Steve McConnell]])
- Have a KPI dashboard for everyone to see
- Have a mission statement who is signed by everyone and also influenced by everyone
- problem characterization guideline / checklist: write short 1 pagers whenever a problem appears that we might want to solve. Use the [[More Effective Agile by Steve McConnell#Responding to the Challenges of Complexity and Uncertainty|Cynefin and OODA]]  approach to characterize them. 
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