Agile got a big boost when the agile manifesto was created.
Many people coming to xpdays have read the first page, some even both pages. Other have helped translating it.
Yves is studying it at regular intervals to look for inspiration.
Yet it's a historical document. Created in 2002 by 17 white males.
These days when Yves start with a new team, he like to give them 40 or more statements, (and a few empty cards) and let's them create their own list of:
That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.
In this workshop, we let multiple groups create their own team manifesto and explain it to each other.
Not as general one, yet one that they as a team think would help them.