PATTERN: Proposition / Hypothesis (pattern)
CONTEXTUAL PATTERNS: Group Formation
A group in formation must first develop its own statement of purpose. This formation work, though, must have a seed around which formation work can take place.
Group formation processes often talk about matching persons with simnilar values or aspirations, others seek to begin with rather precise forulations of intent.
Neither of these approaches is 'wrong'. But if a group is to be productive and viable around some particular direction, it needs to 'own' its purpose.
In the course of this discussion on Governance between Lauren Nignon (interviewer), CICOLAB and Susan Basterfield (Consensys, Enspiral), Susan makes a call for use of the conceptual approach of scientists around hypothesis:
How do we how does everything that we choose to do have a disprovable hypothesis? What are we? What are we expecting? How do we collect data to see if, if we were right? How do we start to measure our hypothesis on the basis of you know, what's more reliable our gut or the data like all of these different things are part of a governance process or practice that really fits into, like the methodology that we use for organizing our work, whether it be Scrum or agile, the way that we think about planning and strategy, the way we think about making keeping commitments and the way we think about making decisions, all this.
This pattern suggests that a group that is coming together around some intent spend a period of time working in hypothesis / proposition mode - trying out a variety of possible ways to characterise and formulate that intent in short, well-defined 'sprints', before seeking to produce any definitive 'Purpose'.
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