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Our alliance

As a team, we regularly discuss and decide on our alliance, and document these openly and publicly.

Our alliance is as follows:

  • We agree that it is important for us to all learn
    • Using our 10% time to learn and share with each other
    • Using our firebreaks to learn and share with each other
    • Attending conferences and sharing learnings with each other
  • We agree that it is ok for us to make mistakes
    • We will learn from our mistakes and share those learnings with each other - blameless retrospectives
    • We will lead a blameless culture
  • We agree that it is ok to respectfully challenge and debate each other
  • We agree that no question is a stupid question
  • We aim to over communicate in our team channel
  • We will be transparent, open, and inclusive
    • We will endeavor to set up a system where people can send their thoughts and ideas anonymously if they wish to
  • We will have our camera on in meetings as a default but will respect if people choose to turn it off
  • We will highlight achievements externally
  • We will respond to written feedback requests in a timely manner
  • We meet in person on a regular basis
    • We will have regular team socials
  • We will regularly introspect and adapt
  • We will share and actively engage with other teams
  • We won't take ourselves too seriously
  • We will be responsive to user needs
    • We should be confident to challenge user needs if we think they are wrong, but we will do so respectfully and with evidence
  • We will respect each others ways of working
Last reviewed: 21 May 2026Review status: ✓ Up to dateOwner: #modernisation-platformSource: View source on GitHub

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