While transparency is often hailed as crucial in Agile frameworks, excessive transparency can result in harmful outcomes like micromanagement and misinterpretation, eroding team trust.
In the pursuit of balance, strategic opacity helps preserve team autonomy, creating an environment where members feel empowered and not fearful of excessive scrutiny.
The principle of Radical Candor emphasizes that without the right balance between directness and empathy, transparency risks undermining team dynamics and psychological safety.
A culture of oversight can evolve from too much transparency, where detailed updates lead teams to spend more time justifying their work than actually progressing.
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