Direction

Joy of Agility by Joshua Kerievsky

• Instead of blindly adhering to long-established approaches, consider exploring alternatives. This can lead to accelerated progress and improved efficiency.
• Consider at least three options before acting on something.
• Don't let an unexpected event detail you. Handle change gracefully by being quick, resourceful, and adaptable. Improve whatever makes responding to change slow, complicated, or awkward.
• Avoid many rules, regulations, and restrictions. Make it easy to be quick and adaptable.
• Prepare how you would respond to problems. Prepare for the unexpected.

Focus

• In the name of hyper-efficiency, companies overload people with so much work that they are in a constant state of hurrying, unable to slow down, reflect, experiment, and respond to change. Without a level of slack, an organization cannot improve or innovate, which is a recipe for stagnation. Stop overscheduling yourself and others, stop trying to do too many things at once, and stop letting efficiency dominate everything. Be strategic in deciding what is critical to focus on and ruthless in deciding what not to do. Make time to reflect, improve, learn, and change.
• Activity without achievement often happens when you (or your team or organization) work on too many things at once. Busyness and hurrying increase while finishing decreases, sometimes sharply.

Alignment

Have you and your colleagues aligned? Draft a Vision (the desired future state), a Mission (how we would achieve the vision), Objectives (how we'd measure the success of our work), our Community (who would be involved in the work), and Working Agreements (how we would work together harmoniously).

When rewriting

Don't rush into a rewrite, figure out what is important to do and what work can be eliminated