Core Values and Guiding Principles

Shop #

• Strategies > Standards
• Influence > Control
• Collaborators > Customers
• Hut > Castle

People - Compassionate Tech Values #

• Humility > Ego
• Inclusion > Elitism
• Cooperation > Competition
• Learning > Being "Smart"
• Being a Mentor > Being a "Rockstar"

Projects - Agile Manifesto #

• Individuals and interactions > processes and tools
• Working software > comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration > contract negotiation
• Responding to change > following a plan

Code - Zen of Python #

• Beautiful > ugly
• Explicit > implicit
• Simple > complex
• Complex > complicated
• Flat > nested
• Sparse > dense
• Readability counts
• Now is better than never
• Although never is often better than 'right' now
• If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea
• If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea