[flavien_bessede]

Next up: "Poll: How many people consider switching to Valve organization?"

[RegEx]

Cue the Agile coaches switching over to teaching "Valve". "Refinery" meetings are held in a format called the "Engine room".

[kabdib]

And they're all going to say, "We're just like Valve's flat organization, except here we do it a little differently because we have managers, and a CEO and a few VPs, and ..."

(A cow-orker of mine went to Valve last year; he's incredibly, insufferably happy).

[wpietri]

And after that, you'll see the inevitable HN posts about how the "Valve" adoption at their company didn't work, which proves the whole idea was bankrupt to begin with, and probably a conspiracy to increase book sales, consulting rates, and the amount of underpants collected by the gnomes.

[codeonfire]

followed by "a lot of people say they're doing Valve, but almost no one is doing Valve correctly. If they were really doing Valve, it would work."