This is kind of a funny page to look at.

The next page has more detail. This is the text from the facing page:

What we do is very difficult, the current situation is hard to understand ,and the future is uncertain. Mistakes are an inevitable consequence of attempting to get the right stuff done. Unless we can make mistakes visible both individually and collectively ,we will be doomed to mediocrity.

One of the things that I’ve enjoyed about being at Redgate is that we try stuff and we sometimes fail. We talk about those issues in engineering and we do a decent job of an RCA and retrospective that we publish publicly (internally). I like that. Not every group does this, but many do, and lots of groups have influenced others to start or get better.

We’re not perfect, and we know it. However, we are striving to accept those imperfections in others, even as we try to improve.

I have a copy of the Book of Redgate from 2010. This was a book we produced internally about the company after 10 years in existence. At that time, I’d been there for about 3 years, and it was interesting to learn a some things about the company. This series of posts looks back at the Book of Redgate 15 years later.