In “Teamwork is an Individual Skill” Christopher Avery suggests that collective leverage and power does not come from distributing and delegating accountabilities, but from collectively demonstrating responsibility for the entire result, with each member doing their best to make their...
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Agile teams have the sacred goal of delivering value. So perhaps Agile teams be made accountable for the value that they create? This seems reasonable. However, there are problems with this. For one thing, it is very open-ended. How is...
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Governance Principles Planning is everything, the plan is nothing – plans are not commitments, they are useful tools Primary purpose of Governance is transparency – alignment will follow Secondary purpose of Governance is auditability – accountability will follow In calculating...
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One of the problems that teams can easily fall into is that after a while the team stops feeling the pain of missing commitments. The commitments becomes aspirational goals that somehow don’t seem to get reached … “well we tried,...
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