I like vibes but I don't trust them to do the hard work.
Too many times I've seen teams running on good vibes being crushed by their own naivete.
There's always that one stakeholder or that one manager that's not in sync with "the vibes" and ruins the day.
Another thing — for sure it's cultural, I'm Italian and Italian people just love to talk over and over and over again: good vibes only lead to a lot of talk and absolutely nothing is being written down - either working agreements or tech docs.
I continuously observe company cultures where nobody writes anything down ever, the larger the company, the worse it gets – which is counter-intuitive: one would expect a smaller company to run wild with no docs, and bigger companies to document everything, well that's not the case for me, I've seen far more smaller companies being disciplined about it than bigger ones.
So there can be vibes AND working agreements, I don't see the two being mutually exclusive.
I like vibes but I don't trust them to do the hard work.
Too many times I've seen teams running on good vibes being crushed by their own naivete.
There's always that one stakeholder or that one manager that's not in sync with "the vibes" and ruins the day.
Another thing — for sure it's cultural, I'm Italian and Italian people just love to talk over and over and over again: good vibes only lead to a lot of talk and absolutely nothing is being written down - either working agreements or tech docs.
I continuously observe company cultures where nobody writes anything down ever, the larger the company, the worse it gets – which is counter-intuitive: one would expect a smaller company to run wild with no docs, and bigger companies to document everything, well that's not the case for me, I've seen far more smaller companies being disciplined about it than bigger ones.
So there can be vibes AND working agreements, I don't see the two being mutually exclusive.