Stranger

Participation Level

Stranger

A Stranger is a person who is neither involved nor interested in the work and has no role in decision-making.

Purpose

A Stranger is a person who is neither involved nor interested in the work and has no role in decision-making.

Notes

We consider people to be Strangers when their participation is neither appreciated nor desirable for any decisions on the team.

In the analogy of a country, Strangers are the “foreigners”.

Rules / Constraints

  • This pattern can be combined with other patterns in many ways. We have not yet identified any limiting constraints.

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Dependencies Make Us Better
Dependencies Make Us Better

Division of labor introduces dependencies. We must limit the number of contexts we are involved in and willfully divide our labor because dependencies make us better.

“When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone.”

(Source: “Can a Tool Be Complete?”)

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