Speed and Function is a software development company in Philadelphia with "best in class" knowledge-sharing and collaboration environment at competitive rates.
In the beginning, we built simple educational games. But within ten years, we’d developed a staff training simulator for one of the biggest airlines on the market.
We were able to do it because we learned to master two vital things: scale and complexity.
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When the war started in Ukraine, Speed & Function spent over $100,000 to help 55 team members and their families evacuate from the active combat zones to 13 European countries.
But it wasn’t only about financial help.
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"The biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership #development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders, and continually develops them." - Robert Kegan
Proud to be inspired by the best
See the second part of Stephan Protsak's presentation at #EMWCon, where we shared with the community an approach for MediaWiki Auth Experiment.
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Stephan Protsak from S&F presented at #EMWCon, where we shared an approach for @mediawiki Auth Experiment. In it, we explored the possibility of replacing the existing authentication and authorization system with a third-party identity management system.
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“One of our first two clients was Time for Three, a trio of violinists. Our second big project was a sex therapy portal, the first one of its kind at the time.”
Read the story of Speed & Function as told by co-founders Nick Gluzdov and Irina Abramson. https://t.co/2nNrDGUArV
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CEO Nick Gluzdov shares the benefits becoming a #DDO brings, like self-driven #employees and collaborative (not transactional) relationships with clients in his latest conversation with @bw_bernadette Bernadette Wesley, Associate Partner at Frændi.
Usual hiring has got us to the era of tech-lay-offs. Is hiring in a different way a solution to it?
Read about the Deliberately Developmental approach to hiring in this interview with Anna Krigan, our HR Department Director.
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This was a great stepping stone on our way to becoming the e-learning experts we are now. In 2014, we helped @Vanguard_Group to build a simple yet effective gamified tool to help their clients make better informed financial decisions.
#gamification#elearning#speedandfunction
Gender equality in tech has been a struggle, but tech company Speed & Function is 40% female. This is in part because we're what's known as a DDO -- a Deliberately Developmental Organization. And a fun fact: we have 6 Annas working for us!
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What can set a tech firm apart in the field? Being a Deliberately Developmental Organization. It means learning not just new skills but instead new ways of thinking.
Nick Gluzdov talking with @bw_bernadette Bernadette Wesley at Frændi about being a DDO: https://t.co/OaDIWAGP4r
Speed & Function is a member of the @bureauofdigital - because we love working with digital agencies. East Coast's prominent UX agencies are some of our happiest clients.
Check a great piece on the legal side of using AI by @carlsmith in Bureau's blog: https://t.co/bFLrYkl1cF
“We were looking for a method, a trick, a life hack to make people modulated to hear each other. With the holistic framework by @TheDevelopmen10 , we found it.” - says Nick.
Read more about The Developmental Sprint® in our CEO's full interview: https://t.co/JbkYO968Qs
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Speed & Function is paving the way for itself and the others in becoming #DDO - a Deliberately #Developmental Organization. CEO Nick Gluzdov shares the benefits becoming a DDO brings with Bernadette Wesley, Associate Partner at Frændi. @bw_bernadette
Speed & Function is an aspiring #DeliberatelyDevelopmentalOrganization. Read more about what's it like to work with a #DDO in the post by Nick Gluzdov, our CEO and co-founder: https://t.co/sJ487ifTVr"
🔝 Want to create the best version of your team? Then don't tell people how to do their work.
Read about how we direct efforts on our team's development in the interview with Speed & Function CTO Peter ⤵
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