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Values & Principles

Practices (for example review routines, test strategies, demo rhythm) change and get tuned over time. Values and principles do not. Or if they do, it is a major event, worth noticing. Capturing them explicitly gives a shared root system that later practices can grow out of. When a practice and a value end up in conflict, the value wins. If it comes out the other way around, something is wrong.

Here you describe the values and principles that are active and agreed for this initiative. For large initiatives descriptions per team may sometimes be needed, but that is not the common case.

Just as the intent description in the Strategy briefing guides all the micro-decisions of everyday work, so do values and principles.

Practices are typically described on the Teams tab, but nothing stops you from adding relevant information here too, if it serves a purpose.

As inspiration, here is what Kent Beck formulated about values and principles in Extreme Programming Explained:

 

Values

 

Principles

 

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