Living Six Months of Core Values
Like many of our customers, we’re a fast-growing company. Growth is exciting – we more than doubled our product portfolio in the past 18 months. With these new products, we continue to develop our market and ultimately help developers innovate faster at scale.
And we found ourselves wondering, as we grew from a company of 10 employees to over 500: Who are we?
So, we began an initiative to explore who we are today and who we aspire to be. We assembled an Advisory Board, a group of Sonatype team members from across the organization who volunteered their time and effort to contribute to this important initiative through a series of cross-functional focus groups. After much discussion and debate, we landed on four core values:
We launched these values at the beginning of 2022 and have been focusing on living them every day. Now that they’ve taken hold throughout the company, we’re excited to share them with you today.
Understanding Our Values
Sonatype’s core values are both foundational and aspirational. They are true to both the culture of Sonatype as a startup, the company we are today, and the company we want to grow into. Trust Through Transparency & Accountability is a great example of this: in our early days, it was easy to be transparent about projects, performance, and overall strategy; however, as we scaled, we lost some of the transparency of a company of 10 employees. It is now a focus area of our leadership team to live up to our value of transparency through a continuous stream of communication with employees.
Our values are also progressive: they build upon one another to culminate in a final outcome: the growth of individuals, customers, and the company. Trust Through Transparency & Accountability is our foundation. As a (Read more...)
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Sonatype Blog authored by Savanna Hajdasz. Read the original post at: https://blog.sonatype.com/living-six-months-of-core-values
