Ideals
We all need the time, energy and the focus to do our work.
What is Focus, Flow & Joy?
A consistent and continuous pace.
What is Predictability?
Team based approach for delivery of work.
What are Team commitments?
Team members work together flexing job functions in order to deliver the team's commitments. They build a breadth of knowledge in multiple disciplines for efficient collaboration and deep expertise aligned with their interests and skills.
What are T-shaped individuals?
Standardized planning and delivery schedule shared across the organization in order to align dependencies and avoid duplicate or conflicting efforts.
What is a shared cadence?
Essential ingredients for autonomous teams and reliable systems.
What is Locality & Simplicity?
Ability to adjust/pivot quickly based on the needs of the organization and/or external needs and demands.
What is Responsiveness?
Alignment within the organization, connecting people to purpose. Provide the vision and intent, then get out of the teams' way, allowing them to make decisions on how to work toward that vision.
What are Empowered Teams?
Teams work collectively to achieve common objectives by sharing knowledge, suspending assumptions, and ‘thinking together’. They complement each other’s skills for group problem solving and learning.
What is Team Learning?
Small increments of work that build onto each other are completed and reviewed by customers (internal or external) or customer proxy.
What is incremental delivery?
Even a small amount each day accumulates tremendous improvements in efficiency and capacity over the long run.
What is Improvement of Daily Work?
Focus on value to the organization.
What are Economic Decisions?
Prioritization based on value, not size, effort or order of request.
Economic view
Every part of the enterprise focuses on continuously improving its solutions, products and processes.
What is Relentless Improvement?
The ability to respond quickly to opportunities and threats.
What is Organizational Agility?
Think about who the customer is and what their needs are when building solutions for them.
What is Customer Focus?
Enhancing the quality and accuracy of deliverables.
What is Communication and Collaboration?
Looking across value streams that may span departments to identify impacts, reduce redundancies and identify best approach.
What is Systems View?
The organization sees the larger picture and takes a holistic approach to learning, problem-solving, and solution development.
What is Systems Thinking?
Employees at every level are learning and growing so the organization can transform and adapt to an ever changing world.
What is a Learning Organization?
Being able to show and employ one’s self without fear of negative consequences of self-image, status or career.
What is Psychological Safety?
Happiness, unlocking intrinsic motivation of employees.
What is better Employee Engagement?
Empower teams to make local decisions.
What is Decentralized Decision Making?
Leaders envision, align with, and articulate exciting possibilities inviting others to share in and contribute to a common view of the future. The vision motivates employees to contribute to achieving it.
What is a Shared Vision?
Leaders create an environment that supports creative thinking, curiousity and challenging the status quo.
What is an Innovation Culture?