How do Agile & Lean enhance value alignment?
High performance organizations are able to tightly align the values of their culture or community with the values of their products and services. As work is performed in high performance organizations the worth of each value set is reinforced and enhanced. If cultural or community values are not aligned with product and service values, or if the values of each are not commonly shared, business friction increases and the organization will literally be at cross purpose to itself. Decisions seem difficult to make, customers believe you are hard to do business with, employees are de-motivated bureaucratic barriers, etc. Attempting to solve each of these symptoms individually doesn’t work. As soon as one symptom is pushed down, another pops up.
