How NASA's Pirate Paradigm Challenged The Status Quo — NOBL

What keeps them on course is a shared, passionate commitment to guiding principles that demand that the best be allowed to emerge and be improved, by anyone, from anywhere. Starting with principles, they regard outcomes only as landmarks showing where they are. They map the future not by trying to pre-empt or co-opt it, but by believing in it, bein

The key is a new corporate structure that we call an innovation colony. Like the economic and political colonies of previous centuries, an innovation colony is a settlement staffed by employees of the mother company, but it’s distant enough that the company’s traditional management practices are not in full effect.

This was their system: prototype and test, prototype and test, prototype and test—until the time was up. When there is no set path, this system wins.

we do not propose solutions to achieve these goals or write stories or features (especially not “epics”) at the program level. Rather, it is up to the teams within the program to decide how they will achieve these goals. This is critical to achieving high performance at scale, for two reasons: The initial solutions we come up with are unlikely to b

If you can set up the rules and bureaucracy such that they allow good innovative ideas to have a path to execution, then you don’t need to distinguish between good ideas that come from a special innovation team from those that come from everyone else.