The organization can prioritize work based on value.

What Conditions Enable Value Focus?

ConditionWhy
Transparencyeveryone sees demand
Honestypeople reveal true priorities
Respectteams accept tradeoffs
Claritygoals are understandable

What Dysfunctions Arise from Weak Value Focus?

  • Feature Factory → the organization prioritizes output over outcomes, building features regardless of their impact.
  • Validation Blindness the organization does not verify whether what it builds is actually used or valuable
  • Output Obsession the organization optimizes for delivery of features rather than outcomes
  • Validation Blindness - → the organization does not require evidence of value, allowing work to proceed without validation.
  • Output Obsession → the organization equates output with success, neglecting actual impact.