Continuous Transparency
Continuous transparency refers to the ongoing practice of openly sharing information about a product's work, progress, and achievements with stakeholders and colleagues. This includes real-time updates on metrics, clear communication of current activities, and proactive sharing of results and outcomes.
Goal
The goal is to foster a culture of openness and trust, enabling informed decision-making, enhancing collaboration, and ensuring alignment with organisational objectives.
Context
Product Teams are independent yet they need to coordinate to achieve the goals of the ecosystem. By sharing information openly and transparently, they can build trust and confidence in their direction and decisions. This also enables other teams within the ecosystem to understand the work that the Product Teams are doing and how it aligns with the ecosystem strategy.
Inputs
| Artifact | Description |
|---|---|
| Product Roadmap | Visual management tool to track the progress of key initiatives across the product. |
| Product Dashboard | A dashboard that provides a high-level overview of the Product Team's progress and performance against their key metrics. |
| DIBBs (Data, Insights, Beliefs, Bets) | A decision-making framework that starts with data collection, moves to deriving insights, forms beliefs (hypotheses), and makes bets (actionable experiments) based on those beliefs. |
| OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) | Objectives define the desired outcomes, and key results are the measurable steps to achieve them. |
Outputs
| Artifact | Description | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Product Workspace | A centralised digital hub where Product Teams store and manage their roadmap, vision, strategy, objectives, roadmaps and other key documents. |
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Anti-patterns
- Neglect: Failing to keep the workspace updated, leading to disuse and reliance on outdated information.
- Complexity: Overcomplicating the organisation of the workspace, making it hard for team members to find necessary information.
- Restricted Access: Not adequately managing access rights, either by restricting necessary information from some team members or by not protecting sensitive data.