What "good" means differs from floor to floor in the same building.
Recognize this situation? Below are the Liberating Structures that change it — a concrete example, and the reason this one fits here. New to Liberating Structures? Here's what it is.
Min Specs pins down what the shared baseline actually is, not what everyone assumes it is.
For example: On one floor, "good quality" means a task has been thoroughly checked, even if that takes longer. On the floor below, it means exactly the opposite: that a task gets finished fast. Both teams are convinced they mean the same thing.
Liberating Structures for this situation:
Agreement and Certainty
Agreement and Certainty starts by testing the question itself instead of assuming it: in small groups, everyone first puts their own reading of "good" on the table, before any talk of how to get there.
It often turns out that what passed for obvious agreement was actually two different definitions of the same word — exactly the gap between the two floors.
Min Specs
Min Specs then pins down what the shared baseline actually is, instead of what each floor separately assumes it to be: the group reduces "good" to a short list of non-negotiable minimum requirements that everyone actually sticks to.
That list replaces the two unspoken, diverging definitions with one that explicitly means the same thing for both floors.
No certification, no lengthy prep — read the steps and try it at your next meeting.
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