Make work more enjoyable, sustainable, and productive
Onomojo enables a more sustainable and productive work environemnt by putting employee sentiment first.
What we believe
Comoditization of employee effort has been the standard best practice in software development for some time. As a direct result, the industry suffers with poor retention rates and burnout. We believe that sustainable product development is only possible by humanizing the process. We are all emotional beings and to sustainably innovate we must consider the feelings of all the participants. We must move away from attempts to commoditize human beings as 'resources' by solely focusing on story points and velocity.
Our Goal
Our primary goal is to improve the product development environment by helping businesses successfully juggle business objectives and employee retention by humanizing the tooling. We want to improve employee satisfaction with their work by recognizing that people have feelings about the work they're doing. We need to listen to what those feelings are in order to create sustainable productivity. Employees will always be more productive when they're happy and their feelings are being taken into consideration during planning and prioritization.
Business Emotional Intelligence
Just like improving your individual emotional intelligence will improve your well being as a human being, improving your business's emotional intelligence will improve your company's well being by boosting employee morale and productivity. Emotional intelligence is your ability to understand and manage your emotions. For a business, that means listening to your employee's feelings and acting if necessary. We have developed a first of it's kind system that tracks sentiment at a story level which then allows managers to prioritize stories in a way that finds a balance between maximizing employee sentiment and meeting business objectives.
Improve the Mental Health of your Organization
Traditionally project management tools treat employee work as a basic commodity we can shuffle around a deck and organize based on business priorities. This workflow is quite efficient but it's directly responsible for developer burnout and poor employee retention. The commoditization of units of work might work with robots but that's not us. We beleive that ignoring the human behind the developer creates an environment that kills innovation. We are all human. It's time our tools stopped pretending we are robots and started considering our mental and emotional health a priority alongside the business objectives. Every day in our standups we talk about what we're working on but never do we discuss how we actually feel about that work. We're ready to change that by providing the tools needed for the sustainable productivity.
Comoditization of employees as 'resources' instead of humans has cultivated a negative work environment that conflicts with what it means to be human. Onomojo changes that by putting our emotions first.