We have created a successful company with nearly 1,000 smart, opinionated people in six countries organized with little hierarchy and a fanatical commitment to transparency. Of course, our definition of success is not the typical one either; success must encompass client satisfaction, impact on our industry, and impact on our society. We do aim high.
The voices of many ThoughtWorkers are heard in the blogosphere, on the conference circuit, on theWeb, and on the bookshelves. Indeed, part of our commitment to excellence involves ruthlessly critiquing what we’ve done and how we’ve done it to see how to improve it the next time. We’re a tough bunch to satisfy. Once we’ve learned something, we want to tell others about it.
Our battle scars come from myriad projects in different domains, technologies, and platform choices. Although we do think (a lot) about what we do, that thinking is grounded in the real world of delivering lots of software for people. There’s purity to our function that has allowed us to focus on developing software.