This will guide your team but would not limit your team’s passion, creativity, motivation and ability to innovate. These rules are a guide to create an environments where people feel encouraged to explore, experiment, be creative, be curious & take risks.

You can create your own or edit these ones.

• No Criticism or judgments.
• Encourage Wild Ideas.
• It’s not personal: If your ideas are rejected by the team, it is not personal.
• Keep the flow and ideas moving: When someone offers an idea or solution, respond with ” yes, and …” rather then “ yes, but..”
• Provide the space that prompts the team and the customer to explore.
• Use the 5 senses to describe challenges or ideas.
• There are multiple ways to solve the problem. Such as, on a good game, there are multiple ways to win a game.
• Allowing teams to win strategies or paths provides motivation for the exploration of variety of opportunity.
• Decision making is driven by the Human-centered-design: the highest priority is to satisfy the customer and deliver easy to use solutions.
• Target your teams range of abilities, skills and uniqueness – this combination required to solve a challenge must progress incrementally.
• No bureaucracy or title- best ideas win.
• Manage difficulty by embracing change and failure. If nobody talks about failure, nobody is trying hard enough.
• Not doing anything new is not the safest choice.
• Collaborative thinking with the team and with the customer. Team collaboration over coordination.
• Customer collaboration over negotiation.
• Celebrate every milestones and breakthroughs.
• Empower others to be creative and to think “outside the box”.
• Have a fair process and rely on transparency: involve all the parties to understand challenges and decisions.
• Face-to-face conversations to make changes happen faster.(Remote:Slack calls/Google Hangouts/…)
• Be authentic: Authenticity is important for us. We believe everyone can bring valuable knowledge and experience to the table, we value people as they are and not as what we expect them to be. We do not want to miss the value of real collaboration and neurodiversity.
• Stay Passionate.
• Constructive comments: Provide comments that empower people and provides information, solutions, and new ideas.
• Perspective: The human brain searches for the comfortable answer and for those solutions that are ready to understand. Analyzing information from one point of view is like giving the thinker the opportunity of going back to his/her old ideas.