A Manifesto of Business Values

by Kyle Coberly

Values

• Prefer flow to batch
• Prefer purpose to profits
• Prefer output to time
• Prefer self-organized cross-functional teams to top-down functional silos

Beliefs

• If something isn't working, stop doing it and try something new
• If something is working, stop doing it to see if it's still necessary
• Being cheap with customers and employees invites them to be cheap with you
• Write things to remember them, not to communicate them
• People aren't things - don't score or sort them
• People want to work and be good at what they do
• Results are a consequence, not a goal
• The things that matter are difficult or impossible to measure
• Automate computers, not people
• Limit work in progress