Storytelling

Storytelling is deeply ingrained in our nature as human beings. It’s how we pass our culture to one another. Therefore, storytelling is necessary in order for us to keep Awell’s culture alive. Storytelling can come in a number of formats:

• Retrospectives Dev Retrospectives
• Continuous learning (SODOTO)
• Product pitches Shaping
• Persona definitions Personas

Operating principles

• Fail fast (stay lean)
• Innovation > predictability
• Opinions are okay, but not without a plan for data
• Keep a lean board by working “from right to left”
• Communicate early and often
• Succeed and fail as a team

Value Streams

We believe in empowering our individuals by organizing them into small, usually cross-functional teams (we call them “value streams”) of 3-8 people and giving them ownership over a particular slice of the business. Here are some guiding principles to our value streams (“VS”):

• VS should be both highly aligned AND highly autonomous
• VS should be open-sourced to the rest of the company
• VS should expect to be self-service
• VS are created with a mission in mind, and are individually responsible for defining their culture and their methods of execution

Highly aligned, highly autonomous