Pattern for Agile Organizations

Drivers

A driver is a person’s or a group’s motive for responding to a specific situation.

Drivers:

• can be used to derive goals, objectives, aims, mission, vision, purpose
• can change over time

Drivers, Value and Waste

Value is the importance, worth or usefulness of something in relation to a driver.

Waste is anything unnecessary for - or standing in the way of - a (more) effective response to a driver.

By adopting the concept of value and waste, many practices and ideas from lean production and lean software development can be utilized by organizations pulling in S3 patterns:

• value stream mapping
• various strategies for eliminating waste
• the Kanban Method