Metrics in this sense are really a more formal and principled way of reflecting on Development Environments as a way of achieving Continuous Learning and Improvement of Daily Work. They won’t be effective or even be possible to truly obtain until the environment is an empowering one Empowering Environments. Put another way, performer metrics are a way to ask the question “if one wants to increase Joy at Work, how can they do so most effectively?”
The main question here, I think, is when a performer encounters work, what can they do with it? How can they embrace it? And how can they judge the quality of their interaction with that work? Much focus is already placed on what happenswhat happens after a performer has already acclimated to a project; Focusing more explicitly on the meta-interaction between the performer and their work is valuable. So is thinking about the Bootstrapping People process.
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Never a fire without the flame, never a flame without the spark
- Playing around with a project, or demo, mini lessons, etc. (Developing Good Explanations)
- Contributing (Low Risk Releases)
- Testing (Continuous Testing)
- Sharing (Continuous Learning, Discoverable Knowledge)
Time to joy
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- How easy is it to automate the parts of your work that don’t bring you joy? (Empowering Environments)
- How easy is it to match work to people who enjoy that work the most? (Effective Organizational Culture)
- How easy is it to make difficult aspects of the work more joyful (Joy at Work)
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- Feedback Loops
- Low Risk Releases
- Continuous Delivery and Continuous Compliance
- Continuous Compliance
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The only way to wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
- Finding out what can be done better
- Finding out what’s currently suboptimal
- Finding out what causes friction for others (without necessarily asking them to perform routine self-reflection)
- Culture Influences Infrastructure
- Metrics from the correct point of view
- Q4