You can spend your professional life trying to do by intuition and repetition what you could do better with data and algorithms.

'...their presence in the organization has no significant impact on business results.'
The SAFe backlash...
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What if I told you that the tickets aren't really important, and we used to do software development with little more than a sentence on each sticky note, and we threw the notes away after?

This is a really simple problem, and one that was both easy to detect, and costly when we didn’t find it until integration testing. buff.ly/3wcOBpI

correlation is not causation:

Have your customers ever asked for 27 features? Not 27 different things they needed, just that the number is 27 for some reason?

Start with a Walking Skeleton, keep it running, and grow it incrementally. buff.ly/4df94e7

Let go of the belief that we should accurately capture all the requirements before starting work. buff.ly/3wIBU3T

We tend to see that whole system - a master designer surrounded by minion 'brick-makers'- as fraught with peril. There are just too many ways for the work to be wrong or late, and too little engagement of intelligence. buff.ly/3UxNdrg

Repeat after me: 'It is okay to do work that isn't wordsmithed into the Connextra user story format.'

Thinking is difficult,
that’s why
most
people
judge.

C Jung

Perry’s story, and the majority of “better software sooner” stories from my colleagues, describe how moving to cross-functional teams led to breakthroughs in performance, enabling organizations to be far more responsive to customer needs. buff.ly/34mmH9W

Repeat after me: 'The ticket tracker is not the boss of me.'

Repeat after me: 'It's not about the tickets.'

People want to go “agile” provided that “agile” means “distributed waterfall using user story tickets as specifications.”

“We are reluctant to let go of the belief that if I am to care for something I must control it.” — Peter Block buff.ly/3xOO3Xy

If that's what we're actually doing, it will probably take 6 to 8 months. What if we decide to do something different? What if something else becomes more urgent or important? What would you like to do instead?'