Dashlane values and how they translate into more concrete concepts for engineers. How transparent and shared values help teams.

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Dashlane Engineering
Culture Book

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What is Culture?
“Culture is the stuff people do without noticing it.”
Henrik Kniberg (Agile Guru)
“Culture is the manifestation of the shared values of the organization as
represented by the actions of its members.”
Kevin Goldsmith (Spotify)
"Culture is a collection of the behaviors and interactions between people
in organizations."
Jason Little (Lean Change)
 If the vision is where we want to be, then it’s the culture that makes
sure we get there!
 We should put the same effort into building a great culture as we do
building our product.

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Dashlane 7 Core Values
How do they translate into more concrete Engineering values and practices?

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Why do transparent and shared values help us?
Reminding
A value can be
a reminder of
how to act in a
given situation.
Guiding
Values are like
a compass and
allow us to
make decisions
more easily
within our
current
activity.
Focusing
Values help us
to keep the
focus on what
is important.
Inspiring
A value can be
an inspiring
purpose for
our whole
company,
department or
team.
Influencing
Clear values
can influence
our behavior at
work and can
be a force
behind our
motivation,
commitment
and
productivity.
Reflecting
Values are part
of our identity
and our
culture.
 What is the advantage of pinning them up on a wall so everybody can see them?
 What is the benefit of identifying the values that reflect our actions in the past?

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Ambition
Aim for the best:
 latest tech and tools,
 top release pipeline allowing smooth and fast on demand delivery,
 super solid test automation with top quality levels,
 Innovative in our field,
 Be known as thought leaders.
Dream Big

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Ambition
Our Definition of Awesome

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Ambition
• As we grow the Engineering team, we want to stay nimble while avoiding chaos.
We want to avoid waste and stay lean.
• MVB = Minimum Viable Bureaucracy.
What is the least amount of structure and process we can get away with to avoid total chaos?
Growing the People and Growing the Team

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Passion
• We use and love the Dashlane product, all aspects of it: consumer, enterprise, partner.
• We are ambassadors of Dashlane for our friends and families, our tech communities, our world.
• We care and act when we are not satisfied with the quality of our Product.
Passion for our Product

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Passion
• We are Software Craftsmen producing
 clean code,
 well-crafted software
 and raising the bar on our technology.
• We are passionate about what we do and we want to share the Dashlane
practices and skills with the tech community.
• We want to push the boundaries and innovate.
Passion for our Technology

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Passion
• Even if we understand the constraints of our business, we
think there is a way to both deliver value and have fun in
what we do.
• We look for the right balance between necessary work and
stimulating work to nurture passion and pleasure as we think
it will also allow us to please our customers and our
shareholders.
• We challenge ourselves to not just do things, but find ways
of doing them in a smart and exciting way.
Avoid too much compromise and sacrifice that kill passion and pleasure

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Ownership
• We value initiative from all, each one at its level.
• It is the contribution of all that makes us a better team.
• Everybody is encouraged to suggest ideas and participate in the
team's life and tech projects.
Initiative

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Ownership
• We aim at being autonomous teams, where we can follow the way:
Think it  Build it  Ship it  Tweak it
• Each team should operate as its own small start up, while still following the Dashlane grand vision.
Autonomous Team

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Ownership
• We value the individual success of our team members, as much as the collective success of our teams.
Both are equally important and serve the greater good.
• We want to be recognized for our successes and celebrate them with the whole organization.
• We take responsibility for our failures. Mistakes or bugs are inevitable.
This is why we should aim to make mistakes and fail as quickly and gracefully as possible.
Success & Failure
• Fail Fast  Learn Fast  Improve Fast  Long-Term Success + Happiness
• Better to plan for Failure Recovery than Failure Avoidance.
Build with failure in mind.
Think robustness and resilience.
• Fix the process, not just the product.
A failure is only a failure if you do not learn from it!

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Sharing information
• We trust people, which means we share (almost)
everything in our team. We strive to share.
• Code is open to all. We cross-train ourselves. We
push information.
• Collective knowledge makes us stronger.
Communication network
• We want to build a network of people, where
anybody can talk to anybody, without silos or
boundaries.
• Better relationships and communication help us
do our job better.
Transparency

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At all levels
• Our team(s) are what matters, at
all levels: our scrum team, our
engineering team, our company.
We help each other and succeed
and fail together.
• Emulation and positive
competition between teams is
healthy for performance but tribe
war is not an option.
Egoless culture
• To have a strong culture, this is
down to the people in the team.
We need to have a strong culture
of mutual respect and trust,
there is no place for ego.
• We are all in the same boat,
together, and need to help each
other to succeed.
• We should motivate each other,
offer help all the time and work as
one team.
Team first
Empathy
• We care for our team mates. We
want them to be happy at work.

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No secret agenda
• We are here to work together as a team and make Dashlane, our
Company, succeed.
We do not have a personal secret agenda.
We work for the greater good.
We share transparently and honestly.
• We certainly do not retain information, blackmail, put our colleages in
a position to fail, back-stab colleagues for promotion...and all those
political moves we can find in old-school structures.
• We do not play with people, manipulate them to achieve personal
agendas.
No favoritism
• We recognize our peers for their
contribution and evaluate their
performance fairly. We do not favour
some over others because of personal
reasons such as friendship,...
• There is no such thing as
scapegoating.
No politics
Politics happen whenever you make a decision that violates this
property:
Company  Team  Self.
You put the values of your self above the team.
The values of the team are put above the company.

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Experiment
We should be focused more on
innovation than predictability,
100% predictability = 0% innovation,
and we should be focused on
delivering value and quality rather
than being a slave to a plan.
We want to build an experimental
culture with data driven decisions.
Take risks
• Move Fast and Break things.
Jump in the unknown.
• We accept that we do not know
everything and can't control
everything, so we are ready to take
risks in a controlled manner.
• So we want to put in place
solutions to support that
philosophy and fail safely.
Raise the F* Bar
Be better today
than yesterday
• Every day is an
opportunity to get
better. We look forward
to what we will learn
and achieve tomorrow.
Move fast and break things.
Unless you are breaking stuff, you
are not moving fast enough
Mark Zuckerberg
It’s not about being PERFECT.
It’s about being BETTER THAN
you were YESTERDAY

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Go big or go home Give it everything
you’ve got!
Play fair!Think it, Build it,
Ship it, Tweak it!
• Learn from failure
• Innovate at every level
• Continuous improvement
• Share responsibility
• Iterative development
• Agile-first
• Data-driven
• Autonomous teams
• Transparency
• Trust
• Servant Leadership

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