Tangoe is a software company that
helps large enterprises manage their IT assets.
When I started here many years ago,
our culture was different in the sense
that sometimes, as common with most engineering teams,
we make mistakes, we introduce bugs.
And sometimes that came with a level of shame.
As we've grown, we've learned to go away from a culture of shame
to a culture of praise, a culture of, hey,
it's OK to make a mistake every now and then.
Before we started using Velocity,
things would fall through the cracks, and
it would leave people waiting for code reviews
and slow certain parts of the project down.
Once we learned to use it as a tool
to make our practices better, we lost our sense of they're
trying to bring us down and turn it into they're
trying to build up.
Velocity is a great tool to engage a conversation.
We capture all the various steps in the development lifecycle
so that we can see, holistically,
the link from start to finish of a particular task.
It just makes it easier for me to have these conversations
with a little bit of data to back up what I'm feeling.
I'm not necessarily feeling anymore, I'm seeing.
We've been able to actually get to a point
where we're doing atomic commits.
Everybody is committing more often, more frequently.
We can review it better.
The process is just easier for all of us to understand.
It's changed the culture in that we are more eager to push code.
Because that is what our team leaders are saying,
push, push, push, it's OK.
If you make a small mistake, it's much easier
to fix than a big mistake.
And then I see bubbles where I pushed
PRs that were way too big and I should have done that better.
That's my favorite tool.
That's the one I use the most.
I mean, we love it.
We absolutely love it. [MUSIC PLAYING]