Empower Teams to Push Back on Unsustainable Demands

This standard mandates the empowerment of teams to advocate for realistic delivery expectations and challenge unsustainable demands.

1. Empower Teams to Push Back on Unsustainable Demands:

Teams must feel safe to advocate for realistic delivery expectations. This approach ensures sustainable workloads and prevents burnout.

• 1.1 Realistic Expectation Advocacy:
  • 1.1.1 Deadline Challenge:
    • Encourage engineers to challenge unrealistic deadlines or excessive scope creep.
    • Automate the tracking of deadline challenges.
  • 1.1.2 Scope Management:
    • Implement clear scope management processes.
    • Automate the tracking of scope changes.
• 1.2 Leadership Training:
  • 1.2.1 Sustainable Planning:
    • Provide leaders with training on sustainable workload planning.
    • Automate the delivery of training materials.
  • 1.2.2 Cultural Reinforcement:
    • Reinforce a culture where long-term sustainability is valued over short-term speed.
    • Automate the tracking of cultural reinforcement activities.

By empowering teams to push back on unsustainable demands, organisations can ensure realistic delivery expectations.

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