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Practical, transparent work on how value is created, transformed and lost. Every work can be read without an account.
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Methodology PapersOKRs set direction and KPIs control quality, but in management systems all objectives look equal, so the convenient and the measurable tend to win over the important. This paper, for managers and product, engineering, operations and strategy leaders, proposes a value layer over existing goals: each objective and indicator receives a planned value and an anti-value estimate in Æ, tied to a named value system and owner, and is later checked against realized value. It gives the required record per objective, an eight-step adoption procedure, an illustrative example and safeguards against false precision and gaming.
OKRKPIprioritisationvalue currencyanti-valueplanned and realized valueaggregation policyGoodhart's law
Methodology PapersVelocity, throughput and DORA-style delivery metrics describe how work moves through a pipeline, but not what value it delivers or what anti-value it creates. This paper gives product and engineering leaders a method for modelling a software product's value system with the Value System Schema (VSS) and the VSS Editor, and for comparing planned, realized and retrospective value per release. It covers flow resistance, leakage, shared nodes such as authorisation and API gateways, roles, cadence and the limits of the approach.
value system schemaVSS Editorsoftware deliveryplanned and realized valueanti-valueflow resistanceshared servicesdelivery metrics
Theoretical ResearchOrganisations usually measure AI as a digital employee: tasks completed and headcount avoided. This paper shows, from Value Management Theory, why that frame measures AI where it looks strongest and hides rework and anti-value on the receiver side. It gives managers and AI programme leads a way to place AI as a transformer role in a value system, name it, draw it in a Value System Schema and measure it where its output is consumed.
AI adoptionvalue transformerplanned and realized valueanti-valuereceiver-side metricsValue System SchemaVMTÆilus
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Practical ways of working with value, linked to the Æilus methodology. The catalogue is being prepared.
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