Open collaboration
"It's good to try finding a solution yourself, but ask for help before it turns into some nonsensical monstrosity." — Raph
With Mashup Garage, it's important that we give as much as we take. The more we collaborate and share, the faster we grow individually and as a company. The easier things and solving solutions will become for everyone.
We work at an open space. The collective knowledge of everyone makes it easy to solve problems or find alternate solutions to our tasks.
Call for help but also do your part
We encourage asking questions but it's also important that we try to figure things out ourselves. Do not get other people to solve your problems because everyone needs to pull their weight.
Instead of:
"Hey, any idea how I can do this?"
Try this:
"Hey, I've tried this approach so many times but I still couldn't figure it out. Any idea how can I solve my problem?"
It's good to mentor individually, but try sharing to a group instead.
If you're going to do a one on one session, sometimes it might be a good idea to share that knowledge to other teammates who might be needing to learn the same thing. A simple offer to our #slackoverflow channel will help spread the knowledge faster.