Principles

Foster open communications
To maximize members’ individual effectiveness and optimize efficiencies in the work, information has to be readily available and actively shared.

Shared vision
Vision helps to clarify goals and bring conflicts and mistaken assumptions to light so they can be resolved

Empower team members
MSF advocates bottom-up scheduling, a schedule that the team can support because it believes in it

Clear accountability and shared responsibility
Establishing well-understood lines of accountability and responsibility reduces uncertainty around the "who, what, when, and why,"

Focus on business value
By combining a focus on business value with shared vision, the project team and the organization can develop a clear understanding of why the project exists and how success will be measured in terms of business value to the organization.

Stay agile, expect change
MSF advises teams to expect changes from stakeholders and even the team itself

Invest in quality
Investment in people, as well as in processes and tools

Learn from all experiences
The failure to learn from all experiences is a guarantee that we will repeat them, as well as their associated project consequences.

Partner with customers
Understanding the value proposition of your solution and communicating it effectively is a key success factor.

Always create shippable solutions
Each change should be done in the context of the belief that the product should be ready to ship at any time.