Core Protocols

Team = Product

The essence of the “Team = Product” philosophy is that the behavior of a team maps directly to the qualities of its product, and vice versa. — Origins of the Core Protocol

Upon my research, i’ve discovered Core Protocols. A behavioural toolkit based on 11 rules with expansion on how to enable effective teams behaviour, as best i understand it. The toolkit does reflect some similarities with tools around the Hyper Island way week from aligning expectations and reflecting through Checking In & Out which I find very useful in how I assess myself and teams I work with.

Could a set of best practice help in a learning organisation to enable effective knowledge sharing when everyone within the organisation is align with a shared vision?

Core Commitments

1. I commit to engage when present.

To know and disclose

• what I want,what I think, and what I feel.

To always seek effective help.

To decline to offer and refuse to accept incoherent emotional transmissions.

When I have or hear a better idea than the currently prevailing idea, I will immediately either

• propose it for decisive acceptance or rejection, and/or explicitly seek its improvement.

I will personally support the best idea

• regardless of its source, however much I hope an even better idea may later arise, and when I have no superior alternative idea.

2. I will seek to perceive more than I seek to be perceived.

3. I will use teams, especially when undertaking difficult tasks.

4. I will speak always and only when I believe it will improve the general results/effort ratio.

5. I will offer and accept only rational, results-oriented behavior and communication.

6. I will disengage from less productive situations.

• When I cannot keep these commitments,
• When it is more important that I engage elsewhere.

7. I will do now what must be done eventually and can effectively be done now.

8. I will seek to move forward toward a particular goal, by biasing my behavior toward action.

9. I will use the Core Protocols (or better) when applicable.

• I will offer and accept timely and proper use of the Protocol Check protocol without prejudice.

10. I will neither harm — nor tolerate the harming of — anyone for his or her fidelity to these commitments.

11. I will never do anything dumb on purpose.