Values and Principles
Our goal is to build teams that are effective, efficient and engaged as they achieve business outcomes while creating valuable products their customers love.
We value:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working solutions over comprehensive documentation
- Customer focused collaboration over silos and hierarchy
- Responding to change over following a plan
- Relentless improvement over settling for status quo
We show these values by making decisions by using these principles:
- Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable solutions.
- Welcome changing requirements, even late in the process. High performing teams harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.
- Deliver working solutions frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
- Business people, designers and developers must work together daily, and with a common set of shared outcomes.
- Build solutions around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
- The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a product team is face-to-face conversation.
- Working solutions are the primary measure of progress.
- High performing teams deliver at a sustainable pace. The sponsors, designers, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
- Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
- Simplicity--the art of maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.
- The best architectures, requirements, designs and solutions emerge from self-organizing teams.
- At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
