Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

Questions for Measuring Culture (Likert Scale):

  • Information is actively sought.
  • Messengers are not punished when they deliver news of failures or other bad news.
  • Responsibilities are shared.
  • Cross-functional collaboration is encouraged and rewarded.
  • Failure causes inquiry.
  • New ideas are welcomed.
  • Failures are treated primarily as opportunities to improve the system.

— Chapter 3, Figure 3.1