- **Epistemic status:** #budding The team principles describe concrete focus areas and guide posts for your team. Defining the principles that the team wants to follow can be useful to establish guidelines that can help make decisions easier since the team will be in alignment. Limiting yourself to a small amount of principles of truly relevant ones makes the process less rigid. A few examples of principles are: - Empower but don't overwhelm - Obvious over inventive --- ## References - “Design Language System. Scaling a Design Team through Systems… | by Patrick N. Lewis | Patrick N Lewis | Medium.” Accessed January 30, 2022. <https://medium.com/patricknlewis/design-language-system-23223dd86b54>. - “How to Define and Evolve Your Team Principles | by Jurgen Appelo | Agility Scales (Archived).” Accessed January 30, 2022. <https://blog.agilityscales.com/how-to-define-and-evolve-your-team-principles-81bc2589ba0c>. - SantoPixel. “Defining the Team Principles | FunRetrospectives.” Accessed January 30, 2022. <https://www.funretrospectives.com/defining-the-team-principles/>.