ABCs of ADD: A Cultural Compass for Accountability-Driven Development

How we thrive in a world of abundance.

Sequel to ADD the Beat: Accountability-Driven Development in an AI World

1. ACCOUNTABILITY
   You are accountable for what you control. You are accountable to what you don’t.
2. BUILDING
   Build a system that builds the result.
3. CHARACTER
   Everyone will do what they are incentivized and trained to do.
4. DONE
   The work is done when a fully-documented solution meets a fully-characterized problem.
5. EFFICIENCY
   Maximize learning by testing our most important and relevant beliefs first.
6. FAILURE
   Healthy failure is when honesty meets reality. Toxic failure is when cowardice meets self-deception.
7. GROWTH
   We only get better as fast as we unlearn obsolete thinking.
8. HOPE
   Show me the end result, and I will believe your process. And vice versa.
9. IDENTITY
   My most important contribution is not my skills, status, or stories, but seeing and accepting the present reality and future possibility of everyone and everything involved in our success.
10. JOY
    Energy comes from being confident we are holding the right tensions at the right time.