Why Manifesto was created

Me as Manager of Delivery, Developer, and Team Player, by developing software I always want to bring a great and unique value to the Client, development Company I represent, Myself, my Team, and the World at all.

Through the years, I’ve realized that many companies which develop software can use the power of such an organizational structure as Team to bring value and satisfaction to all parties which are involved in the work process.

Here I bring together my vision, approaches and values in a form of Manifesto statements.

For Whom is this Manifesto

Initially, this Manifesto was focused just on Software Development Teams. Now I see that the Manifesto statements below are pretty generic, they define values and approaches which can be applied outside of Delivery and even in not-IT companies.

Manifesto

We are working in IT to bring the best value and satisfaction to the customer, company, team, and ourselves.  It’s pretty challenging to find a balance and reach all these goals at once. Through our work, we have come to values and conclusions which will make these goals do not contradict but fit each other:

1	The Team is one of the most important values of the company
2	The Team is the most important structure of the company, which creates value for the customer.
3	A motivated, result-oriented and professional Team can bring more value and satisfaction to the customer and company than just professional Team or group of independent employees.
4	Being a part of a Team, with the ability to Own & Invest & Get value from its work, is one of the best ways to make employees motivated, engaged and accountable for results.
5	Team individuality, its rights to impact on its work processes and composition should be respected.
6	Team Satisfaction is no less important than Customer Satisfaction
7	The skill to act as a Team Player is essential for an employee.

How to Sign Manifesto

If you agree to the statements mentioned in the Manifest – You can sign this Manifesto by leaving comment under this page with the text: Agree.

Goals of Manifesto

Let me summarize here, goals I would like to reach by defining of Manifesto.

1. Way to share my concept to a wide audience in a form of clear and consistent statements. This goal is based on the Manifesto definition.  Thoughts can include key ideas, values, conclusions. 
2. Promotion of Ideas & Values across people who will potentially help to build solutions or use their results (employees, customers etc.) . The manifesto should help attract attention and gain support and approval of the concept.
3. Identify and unite like-minded people to bring thoughts and concept itself to life. Manifesto should help to clarify if employees or company agree / have a trust in our ideas, values and ready to support them. Agreement with Manifesto is some kind of marker/entrance gate to work with people or companies with the same mindset.
4. Give directions for solutions, how to solve the problems which exist in software development.
5. Align solutions and decisions to make them consistent. It gives ranges for solutions implementations and decisions made during implementation. 
6. Speed up decision-making of during applying of solutions.  It’s hard to be fully aware about fast changing processes and solutions, but decisions should be made fast. Alignment of decision with the Manifesto will lower risks that the decision will break something or will be inconsistent with the solution.  

This Manifesto created not to be apposed with other statements and modern development approaches as Agile Manifesto, but support them.

What I mean under Team

As mentioned above, the Manifesto is used for Software Development Team, which is well-known term in the IT world (including Outsource). But now we see that the Manifesto is well applicable for Teams across other areas. It attracts people to support it. We see a big power in it and don’t want to use strict definition.

As a result, let’s use the most general definition: A Team it is a group of people united by common goals, interests, ideals, acting together. Team members are united by each other’s support and are collectively responsible for the result of the entire team’s activities.

In some other resources, it can be used a less strict definition from Wiki: A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal., which is also allowed for the Manifesto.

What is as basis for the Manifesto

This Manifesto was formed based on personal experience of creators, including work in IT and Sports. In addition to this, the Manifesto is based on the following opinions/science knowledge/researches:

• Basic Psychological Needs proposed by Self-Determination Theory (see relatedness need)
• Seven Major Sources of Economic Progress, mentioned by James D. Gwartney and Richard L. Stroup, in “What Everyone Should Know About Economics And Prosperty”, 1993