Small Improvements

Even prior to Corona we were fairly good at remote work, and since March 2020 we're almost entirely distributed. Everyone can take time off at short notice, and it's clear that family is more important than work. At the same time, we love our work, and we're passionate about what we do. We hire people who share our love of creating value for our customer. We assign projects based on employee's preferences, and balance the fun with the necessary tasks. Sometimes boring work can't be avoided, but afterwards we'll improve processes until boring work can be automated. Which in turn also helps with work-life balance. What's with the name? True revolutions rarely go as planned. And when it comes to actual improvements, most work best when applied incrementally. Small improvements are an important cornerstone in lean manufacturing like for example Kaizen (Wikipedia). The name was inspired by our CEO's time at Atlassian. There were always tons of important mission critical features on the product roadmap, and there was little time for all the small things. Ultimately only the intern's time could be spared, and to make it sound more glamorous, he was named the "Small Improvements Team (of one)". We have rarely gotten a better return on investment! So here at SI, we continue in that spirit, favoring (many) incremental improvements that actually provide customer value over big initiatives that too often fail. Values