Why Software Developers Should Learn the Thriller Dance

It¿s easy to be cynical about efforts to create a ¿culture¿ around a team of software developers. Team-building activities are notoriously hokey, and the notion of a ¿work hard, play hard¿ lifestyle has become so trite, it¿s meaningless. Tech companies are littered with Nerf guns and foosball tables that never get used. But Urban Airship is taking a different tack. It employs a "minister of culture" named Barb Stack, and company employees say there¿s a self-awareness to her work that makes it different."