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Essence Alpha - WAY OF WORKING

Alpha Essence Card - WAY OF WORKING

Principles Established

  • Principles and constraints are committed to by the team.
  • Principles and constraints are agreed to by the stakeholders.
  • The tool needs of the work and its stakeholders are agreed.
  • A recommendation for the approach to be taken is available.
  • The context within which the team will operate is understood.
  • The constraints that apply to the selection, acquisition and use of practices and tools are known.

Foundation Established

  • The key practices and tools that form the foundation of the way-of-working are selected.
  • Enough practices for work to start are agreed to by the team.
  • All non-negotiable practices and tools have been identified.
  • The gaps that exist between the practices and tools that are needed and the practices and tools that are available have been analyzed and understood.
  • The capability gaps that exist between what is needed to execute the desired way of working and the capability levels of the team have been analyzed and understood.
  • The selected practices and tools have been integrated to form a usable way-of-working.

In Use

  • The practices and tools are being used to do real work.
  • The use of the practices and tools selected are regularly inspected.
  • The practices and tools are being adapted to the team?s context.
  • The use of the practices and tools is supported by the team.
  • Procedures are in place to handle feedback on the team?s way of working.
  • The practices and tools support team communication and collaboration.

In Place

  • The practices and tools are being used by the whole team to perform their work.
  • All team members have access to the practices and tools required to do their work.
  • The whole team is involved in the inspection and adaptation of the way-of-working.

Working well

  • Team members are making progress as planned by using and adapting the way-of-working to suit their current context.
  • The team naturally applies the practices without thinking about them
  • The tools naturally support the way that the team works.
  • The team continually tunes their use of the practices and tools.

Retired

  • The team's way of working is no longer being used.
  • Lessons learned are shared for future use.
Edited by Marko Rintamäki