A User-Value Centric “Manifesto”
UPDATE: I have provided this as a Suggestion/Commentable Google Document. I look forward to the engagement.
I’ve been re-reading the Agile Manifesto over and over again over the last 5 years since I’ve been really pushing for Design Operations (DesignOps) and many people want to turn DesignOps into the next DevOps (which it should never be).
This is a draft I wrote while I was writing a bit on agile for my keynote DesignOps Summit happening next month in Brooklyn, NY, USA. It probably won’t make it into the presentation, but I wanted to put it out there to get reactions from people.
Why “re-write” the Agile Manifesto at all?
- It was written by and signed by only white men. (Yes, I’m a white man, but I’d love to collaborate with anyone and everyone interested.)
- It’s been almost 20 years since its been written and well, for something that is about lack of rigidity it has been around a might long time. I feel we’ve learned a few things and hopefully those come through in my working list.
What’s missing from mine right now is that there are no accompanying principles. I think the 12 principles are actually more important than the Manifesto itself.
Anyway, here it is:
“We are uncovering better ways of [providing value] by doing [design] and helping others [to do design].”
“Through this work we have come to value:”
