Hashrocket began as a small four person shop aiming to build products and get rich doing the same. Something happened along the way and they wound up with a small principled consultancy that works hard and plays harder. Listen in as Les and Jim share how we keep the culture, quality, and cohesive bond that makes Rocketeers love working for Hashrocket.

Les and Jim will join us at SunnyConf and will cover hiring, communications, methodology, environment, culture, and community:

• Hiring: getting the right people is critical to building an awesome team
• Communications: openeness and transparency are essential to keeping focus and attitude
• Methodology: being Agile takes discipline and practice. It requires more than desire and reading a book
• Environment: being in an envrionment that is pleasant and enjoyable enhances productivity
• Culture: a shared set of values builds and keeps the team bonded
• Community: you are not isolated, participation and giving back are core values of the large Ruby/Rails and OS community

SunnyConf and Rubyology interview

Listen to this interview with Les and Jim about their upcoming SunnyConf talk on building amazing teams.

About Les

Les Hill writes awesome Ruby code for a living and loves it. One of the earliest Rocketeers, he has moved heaven and earth writing rocket-science software at a stealthy security firm, pioneered one of the web's first AJAX applications, and written core algorithms for scale-free peer-to-peer networks. Les is an active contributor to open source projects, occasionally co-hosts the Ruby5 podcast and blogs regularly on Ruby and development topics. When he is not hacking at Hashrocket, Les can be found enjoying a nature walk or building sandcastles with his wife Megan and their daughter Lulu.

About Jim

A senior member of Hashrocket, Jim "Big Tiger" Remsik is originally from Madison, Wisconsin and has several years of government-sector, full life-cycle business process automation projects under his belt.  He managed to balance the user experience and the need to push new features as a lead support engineer and developed philosophy of building simple things that work and solve problems.