Another Friday read on the Culture debt.

The core idea behind it is the same as for the technical debt, but this time it’s about the culture. As company growths, relationships within it inevitable change. This is silly to ignore these changes. Yet, if nothing is done, the culture can drift away, and then it’s much harder to fix, than refactoring a couple of services.

Also, this line strikes hard, when talking about the symptoms of the culture debt: “What you reward diverges from what you say you value.”

People are quite good in calling bullshit on someone or something. It’s often quite obvious when proclaimed values are just empty slogans. This erodes trust as nothing else.

#culture