The Shoe Principle says that if you buy a pair of shoes, you have to get rid of one. We hadn't heard of it until a client brought it up as a way to introduce a new process without overloading the team. We see lots of places where agile teams could apply the Shoe Principle, including alerting systems that no one looks at or standups that have become rote and useless. Like Marie Kondo, we suggest asking whether each team activity "sparks joy", and if not, try parking it for a week to see if you really need it.

SHOW LINKS:

Marie Kondo: https://konmari.com

Normalization of deviance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

Agile Retrospectives book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721338.Agile_Retrospectives

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