All core values
Performance
Pragmatism
Choosing the solution that works in reality over the one that is theoretically perfect or politically easy.
Behaviors
- Tests ideas with the simplest possible version
- Adapts the plan to real constraints
- Values progress over purity
Anti-patterns
- Perfectionism that blocks delivery
- Cutting corners that create debt
- Pragmatism used to justify laziness
Reinforce it with
- Decision criteria that favor workable progress
- Hack days and rapid prototypes
- Recognition for elegant simplifications
Pragmatism is the wisdom to prefer a working solution today over a perfect one never.