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Manifesto: values over theater

Individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, responding to change. The right side still matters — the left side matters more when they conflict.

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Value conflicts in the wild

Map a recent team fight to a manifesto tension (e.g. comprehensive docs vs working software).

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Write 4 bullets: one real example per Agile value — when you chose the left side and why.

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Chapter learning outcomes
  • Four values
  • Twelve principles (skim)
  • Tradeoff language

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Team retro seed

Bring one manifesto tension to your next retro as a discussion prompt.