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Author: BenHaslett-WIOT

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-# TrueNorth 🧭
+# IT Team Principles - Exercise List
 
-**Find your direction. Discover what truly matters.**
+A tool we can use to estalish core principles for running a high-performing IT team. Use these as a menu for the team to select, debate, and rank their values.
 
-TrueNorth is a browser-based tool that helps you discover your core values through simple pairwise comparisons. No sign-ups, no tracking—just you and your choices.
+## 🏗️ Operational Philosophy
 
-## How It Works
+1.  **Boring is Good:** We prefer proven, stable technology over the "new and shiny" unless the value proposition is overwhelming. Stability is a feature.
+2.  **Automate Yourself Out of a Job:** If you do it three times, script it. We ruthlessly eliminate toil to make room for high-value work.
+3.  **Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) > Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF):** Systems will fail. What matters is how fast and gracefully we recover.
+4.  **Cattle, Not Pets:** Servers and systems should be disposable and reproducible, not hand-raised and unique.
+5.  **Documentation is Code:** If it isn't documented, it doesn't exist. Documentation should be versioned, close to the work, and treated as a first-class citizen.
+6.  **Simplicity Wins:** Complexity is the enemy of security and reliability. Choose the simplest solution that works.
 
-You're presented with two values. Pick the one that resonates more. Repeat.
+## 🤝 Culture & People
 
-Behind the scenes, TrueNorth uses a tournament-style algorithm to sort your priorities. The more you play, the more accurate your ranking becomes.
+7.  **Psychological Safety:** We can admit mistakes, ask "stupid" questions, and challenge ideas without fear of retribution.
+8.  **Blameless Post-Mortems:** When things break, we attack the process, not the person. "Who" caused it is irrelevant; "How" the system allowed it is everything.
+9.  **Strong Opinions, Loosely Held:** We debate vigorously based on data and experience, but we commit fully once a decision is made. We are open to changing our minds when new data arrives.
+10. **Bus Factor > 1:** No single person should be the only one who knows how a critical system works. Knowledge sharing is mandatory.
+11. **Respect for Time:** We protect each other's focus time. Meetings require agendas and clear outcomes.
+12. **Customer Empathy:** We solve problems for people, not just for computers. We try to understand the user's pain before prescribing a technical pill.
 
-## Features
+## 🚀 Delivery & Strategy
 
-- **Quick Pick Bonus** ⚡ — Decisions made in under 3 seconds get extra weight. Trust your gut.
-- **Transitive Logic** 🤖 — If you pick Adventure > Safety and Safety > Comfort, we already know Adventure > Comfort. No need to ask twice.
-- **Conflict Log** 📝 — Hard choices (>10s) are logged so you can reflect on them later.
-- **Progress Tracking** 📊 — See your "Self-Knowledge" percentage grow as the algorithm converges.
-- **Bottom 3 Highlight** — See what you're deprioritizing, not just what you're chasing.
+13. **Ship Small, Ship Often:** We release small, incremental changes to reduce risk and get faster feedback. Big bang releases are forbidden.
+14. **Data Over Gut Feel:** We measure what matters. Decisions should be backed by metrics, logs, and observability, not just intuition.
+15. **Default to Open:** We work transparently. Information is shared by default unless there is a specific reason to hide it.
+16. **You Build It, You Run It:** The team that writes the code or designs the system is responsible for its operation in production.
+17. **Security is Everyone's Job:** Security isn't a gate at the end; it's baked into the design and the daily workflow.
+18. **Constraint Drives Creativity:** We embrace our limitations (budget, time, legacy systems) and use them to drive innovative solutions.
 
-## Tech
+## 🛡️ "The Grumpy Stack" Specials (Optional Flavor)
 
-Pure vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. No frameworks, no build step. Just open `index.html` in a browser.
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-Data is stored in `localStorage`—it never leaves your machine.
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-## Roadmap
-
-- [ ] **Glicko-Lite Algorithm** — Replace point accumulation with a proper rating system for more consistent results
-- [ ] **Manual Reordering** — Drag-and-drop to override the algorithm when it gets it wrong
-- [ ] **Export Results** — Save your Top 10 as an image or PDF
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-## Why "TrueNorth"?
-
-Because knowing your values is like having a compass. When life gets noisy, they point the way.
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-*Built with curiosity by Ben Haslett + Winston 🤖*
+19. **No Magic:** We understand how our tools work. Abstractions are useful, but magic is dangerous when it breaks.
+20. **Sleep Matters:** No heroics. If the system requires you to wake up at 3 AM regularly, the system is broken, not the person.