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tackling the various risks before

Products are created by teams, yet traditional (Western) organizations are built around individual accountability. You are held accountable by your manager for your individual performance. This gets reflected in practices such as assigning work to individuals, individual performance reviews, and individual rewarding. These practices promote individ

product owner does this by directing the team toward the most valuable work, and away from less valuable work. That is, the product owner controls the priority order of items in the team’s backlog.

Risks are tackled up front, rather than at the end.

She certainly will. But we’ll ask her, as a favor, to do her growing on the next project. We’ll ask her to do one time for us what she has successfully done before for others. We’ll do that for each project, ask people to defer for a bit the chance to take on a real stretch goal, and repeat, just one time, what they already know they can do success

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But you want the teams to stress over these tradeoffs. If I believe the team is strong and they fully understand the consequences and risks, and yet they still feel they need to replace a key component of the foundation, then I tend to side with that team.

we try to minimize dependencies between teams. Notice that I said “minimize” and not “eliminate.”