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|goal=trust each other a little bit more about what’s going to get done and who is going to do it and when it is going to happen
|stage=Sparkle
|background=See [[agreement]] for its definition.
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**so that we can trust each other a little bit more about what’s going to get done and who is going to do it and when it is going to happen
**to be more intentional about culture—'''intentional culture''', together with the {{p|agile dojo}} becomes '''instant culture''', or '''instant agile culture''' (or lean if that is your flavor); intentional culture of [[agreement]]
**explicit [[agreement]]s between team members give a high sense of trust and an easy way to know that get the work will get done
**[[agreement]]s (and thus {{p|explicit policy}} are a natural fabric of our daily work
**this culture tends do be confrontationally compassionate; confront doesn’t really mean anger or a cause of problem, confront just means meet someone face to face—and a very simple way and say, “Why don’t we do it this way? What do you think?”
**the interactions between individuals that we all care so much about in the Agile community, are really governed by [[agreement]]s. And the more explicit and the larger number of these agreements, the greater the degree to which we keep them, the more the interactions become more fluid, easier.
** know what to expect, you know what to expect and we become a higher functioning team, because we work together in a certain way that we have [[agreement|agreed]] on ahead of time—no haggling afterwards
**the set of interactions between individuals can be governed by {{p|explicit policy}}—relates to system thinking: system is the product of the '''interactions''' between its subsystems
**[[agreement]]s essentially give a form, a way of knowing what to do; it sets expectations; it's a kind of expectation management
**{{p|explicit policy}} shifts the nature of a culture, from one that is accidental, unintentional, drifting in all sorts of different ways, to one that brings us back into interaction, alignment, conversation and collaboration
**improve culture by making, keeping, confronting broken [[agreement]]s and renegotiate and recommit to them
|therefore full=Evolve a web of {{p|explicit policy}}.
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|site=The Culture Engine
|person=Steve Peha, Amr Elssamadisy
|title=Human-Powered Change for High Performance
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|site=InfoQ
|person=Steve Peha
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