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Scenario

When open source transparency conflicts with team psychological safety

Our development team believes in radical code transparency but we're realizing that some team members are afraid to contribute because their work will be visible and critiqued by everyone, and we can't figure out how to balance openness with psychological safety.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group committed to visibility is discovering that exposure can inhibit the very collaboration they're trying to encourage.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Open source as philosophy?”

Peri

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