WIV MAP Culture

Introduction

Companies and modern development should be founded on:

• Waste elimination
• Iterating with fast validated feedback
• Value amplification

Based on Lean_software_development.

Individuals and teams need:

• Mastery
• Autonomy
• Purpose

Based on Drive and Lean_software_development

What’s the problem?

We don’t do the above! We don’t value it enough. We need to embrace the fact that culture is more important than processes.

This is simplified agile and lean. But why simplify it? We need something that we can make actionable decisions against. Something simple.

I’m sure we would all ultimately agree with the following:

• Waste elimination is important; we don’t want more waste.
• Iterating with fast validated feedback is important; we don’t want to be slower or have less meaningful feedback
• Value amplification is important; we don’t want less value.

Try to argue against the above; it’s hard to do. Therefore, we should do it, right?

Individuals and teams need:

• Mastery
• Autonomy
• Purpose

If you’re not embracing this, you’re doing it wrong.

TODO work in progress…

I think most companies and teams would be lying to themselves if they said agile and lean impacted all the decisions made. It’s more the case that people are aware of these concepts but don’t know or even care about the details. Poor understanding, implementation and greed have muddied the waters. It’s a bit like diet and exercise, we know it’s good for us, but we choose to ignore it and its benefits. Or maybe the latest fad has put you off, like it somehow changes the underlying simple immutable fact; eat better food and move more. As humans, we seem to ignore root causes and the health of your business and or team suffers as we default to bad habits. Habits that seem innocuous, can negativity stack up. Culture drives habits, we need good healthy habits. Atomic Habits - references wanting to run a marathon, a goal that many people share. It’s the right habits that will help your achieve your goals, not just setting a goal.

TODO work in progress…

Allen Holub tweeted

Agile:

• Work small
• Talk to each other
• Make people’s lives better

That’s it. All that other junk is a distraction.

Here’s a link to the original tweet. Here’s more information. Credit to him for inspiring me to really question value and output.

Thanks to Unsplash for the blog cover image - https://unsplash.com/photos/green-tree-on-green-grass-field-during-daytime-vLAmX7UXv6M