<strong><em>Everything you need to know about Right Time (but were too afraid to ask)</em></strong>

<strong>Why we exist</strong>

<em>"To have fun while solving complex problems in smart ways"</em>

<strong>What we value</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Taking Initiative</li>
	<li>Working Smarter not Harder</li>
	<li>Collaboration</li>
	<li>Being Open</li>
</ul>
<strong>Our Philosophy</strong>

We believe that work should be fun. We make our work fun by building a team of talented, positive people who are engaged by the problems we are solving, and who actively pursue growth; in themselves &amp; their abilities, in their colleagues, and by enabling our users to succeed.

<em>Reference Materials</em>
<ul>
	<li>Fish!</li>
	<li>Steve Jobs' commencement speech (<a href="http://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc" target="_blank">watch it here</a>)</li>
	<li>Kathy Sierra presentation (<a href="http://vimeo.com/81625882" target="_blank">watch it here</a>)</li>
</ul>
<strong>Our Management Practices</strong>

We believe in simple, effective management. We achieve this by carefully selecting the smallest number of processes necessary to satisfy our business goals, and then by executing these in a disciplined, but fun, way.

<em>Reference Materials</em>
<ul>
	<li>Mastering the Rockefeller Habits</li>
	<li>The Great Game of Business</li>
</ul>
<strong>Our Software Development Practices</strong>

We believe that the development of software products has many similarities to the development on people.
[wpex more="People" less="People"]Change is a necessary and unavoidable part of life, so people thrive when they develop the resilience and maturity necessary to adapt to, and overcome, life's challenges. By the time a child reaches adulthood, if they have developed the inner strength to make mature decisions despite these challenges they will be well placed to succeed. A person's health is also critically important, and key to good health is adopting a healthy lifestyle, which incorporates both eating good, nutritious food and engaging in regular exercise. These are the best ways we know of avoiding the biggest causes of premature death; cancer and heart attacks. Being armed with a mature mind and a healthy lifestyle, an adult has every opportunity to live a long and fulfilling life. [/wpex]&lt;br&gt;[wpex more="Software" less="Software"]Changing requirements are a necessary and unavoidable part of the software lifecycle, so software thrives when is developed in a disciplined manner with an architecture that is adaptable to these changes in customer needs. As a software product matures, if this disciplined development has occured then it should remain maintainable and adaptable to future feature enhancements. The quality of a software product's codebase is also critically important, and key to this is the adoption of healthy software development practices. These incorporate using good coding techiques and engaging in regular testing. These are the best ways we know of avoiding the biggest causes of unmaintainable code; technical debt and broken builds. Developed in this way a software has every opportunity to succeed in the marketplace. [/expand]

We also believe that software should be built like a Formula-1 car. Throughout the season, it may become clear that certain parts of the car are not be performing as well as required for success. But it is never an option to quit or skip races. When weaknesses are identified, the proven way to overcome them and win the Championship is to develop replacement parts concurrently, and then swap them in to the race car as and when they become available. Ideally even a mid-race tyre change would be made on the go. <em>The show must go on</em>.

For these reasons, to build and grow great software we embrace the processes of Continuous Delivery.

<em>Reference Materials</em>
<ul>
	<li>Continuous Delivery</li>
	<li>How to change you tyres (<a href="http://youtu.be/6lP1I2bvg_Y" target="_blank">watch it here</a>)</li>
</ul>
<strong>Our Product</strong>

We believe that the measure of our success is how well we can <em>grow our people</em> and how well we <em>enable our users</em> to succeed.

To achieve this success we recognise the need to build a great business. Therefore the #1 product we are building at Right Time is our business itself.