😊 Other ways to align the happy path

Yesterday, we discussed aligning the happy path in code. Are there other ways to align the "happy path"? (The happy path is the desired path where things are functioning as expected.)

Some thoughts:

Focus on your productive people - as a manager focus your efforts on making life better for the productive 95% of your team, rather than trying to fix the unproductive 5% who probably cannot be helped anyway. At least make your efforts proportional. We should be willing to help people who sincerely want help, but trying to help those who do not want help drains our soul.

Processes should focus on making the primary work go faster and easier. Sure, problems must be addressed, but returns are higher on improving the work desired, vs. knocking down problems. If the former is done better, less time will be spent on the latter.

Proactively write tests to ensure the system is doing what you want it to do, rather than wait for bugs to appear and then write tests to cover those.

In summary, if energy is proactively focused on what is wanted to happen, a lot less time will be spent battling things not wanted.