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When considering the optimal approach to the type of work, it’s not about agile or waterfall. It’s about agile (unknowable, unique) and lean (knowable, repetitive). Waterfall is “Think Big, Start Big, Learn Slow,” for which, in my opinion, there is no excuse. Why would you not optimize for early and often learning, continuous improvement, and the a
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Chapter 3. The Surgical Team
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
Prevent this by ensuring that the Product Owner is the only person who provides work for the teams. Not only does this support focus, it reduces stress caused from trying to manage competing voices all saying “Me first! Me first!” Prioritization is the Product Owner’s problem, not the team’s.
Bas Vodde • Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))
Software development teams can improve all they like, but if the time from customer need identified to need met hasn’t changed because of bottlenecks in the flow, any local optimization of agility in IT will make little or no difference in the end-to-end time to value.
Jonathan Smart • Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
A central theme in Scrum is a relentless focus on delivering customer value. The order of the work is based on delivering value to customers rather than on the convenience to development. For the developers who want to build the framework first, this focus on validating technical decisions by delivering value early is a difficult change.
Bas Vodde • Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn))
Human Led Change Management
Nick Bennett • 1 card
What was originally known as a two-pizza team leader (2PTL) evolved into what is now known as a single-threaded leader (STL). The STL extends the basic model of separable teams to deliver their key benefits at any scale the project demands. Today, despite their initial success, few people at Amazon still talk about two-pizza teams.