Company Lint Tool

You often have metrics for the business side of things for your company. But measuring other goals is harder. E.g. are you on the right track for building community? Are people feeling included? To better keep ourself in check, we are experimenting with a company lint. A set of quantifiable rules with goals we want to achieve. Every month we run the rule set and see where we succeed on and where we fail.

If we fail, we consider what measures we take to make it green for the next month. We also evaluate the rules and either leave them, remove them, change the goal or the wording.

We think this is a great way to communicate measurable goals to the entire company and build collective ownership for achieving them.

CLI

This is a tool for helping tracking results and construct/modify lint rules. You can run the CLI by doing:

npx @variant/lint

This whill, if you have stored auth info (see section below), create (or update if you have existing data sets) a new lint rule set through a guide. To see all commands check

npx @variant/lint --help

Connecting to database

You need to have an API running to use this lint CLI. You can set up your own using the code from this repo: https://github.com/varianter/company-lint

When you have an API running, you can store connection details by using the CLI:

npx @variant/cli config