Working in any direction requires alignment. Alignment makes for optimal velocity. Before alignment is created, efforts create more talk than traction. People work hard without making obvious progress.
Alignment grows and sustains when we interact from shared directions, questions and expectations. These are expectations about how we work, communicate and learn together.
Creating shared expectations begins by identifying what we wish and assume about how we interact together. When wishes or assumptions are different or unclear, we craft experiments to test what could work best for everyone. We work from agreement rather than assumptions. This makes possible shared expectations that leads to alignment.