The organization can prioritize work based on value.
What Conditions Enable Value Focus?
| Condition | Why |
|---|---|
| Transparency | everyone sees demand |
| Honesty | people reveal true priorities |
| Respect | teams accept tradeoffs |
| Clarity | goals 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.