Tiburon Operating Principles

Invest in ourselves
- Recruit, develop and retain smart, passionate people that want to achieve great things.
- Provide opportunities to learn, improve and develop.
- Grow leaders who understand how we build games, represent the culture and teach it to others.
- Provide challenges and balance them with realistic expectations.
- Create a work environment that you enjoy coming to.
- Continually improve best practices, teamwork and technology.
Empower each other
- Presume good will and assume good intentions.
- Understand the context of the work and set clear expectations.
- Scale the decision making process to the impact of the decision.
- Cultivate a community of openness, honesty and transparency.
- Demonstrate ownership by taking initiative to do great things.
- Seek and provide constructive and timely feedback.
Create great games
- Recognize your customers (internal and external) and respond to their needs.
- Maximize customer and shareholder value with each decision.
- Surprise customers and lead the industry with creativity and innovation.
- Strive for simplicity in design and solutions, and balance against over analysis.
- Always seek to increase the quality of the work you produce.
- Be bold and try new things, while balancing goals with constraints.
Recognize, reward and reflect
- Have high expectations for everyone here, including yourself.
- Reward those teams and individuals who demonstrate and live the principles.
- Take pride in, share and recognize our successes.
- Be a learning organization through relentless reflection, root cause analysis, long-term outlook and continuous improvement.
- Be proactive in preventing and solving problems.
- Build upon these principles and improve them.