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More than ever, companies are under pressure to be more productive and effective.
Yet it seems inevitable: as your company grows, so does complexity, leading to inefficiencies.
Is all this complexity truly inevitable?
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One thing makes us human, and it drives everything we do: stories.
We need stories to make sense of the world.
Not just any stories, mind you. To please us, our stories must be two things: simple and painless.
Simple. Painless. Please.
Painless—or painful for someone else.
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Simply put, Agile is dead. Then again—is it?
It all began with a group of independent-minded software professionals who got together to “talk, ski, relax, and try to find common ground.” They agreed on a common set of values in the pursuit of better ways of developing software, published them on a website, and so the “manifesto for agile software development” was born.
This was 2001.
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Want Agile? No two ways about it, there are only two ways to go: Native or Industrial. Go another way and, sure enough, your quest for “agility” will yield . . . anything but.
Of the two ways, the Native way is the best place to start. After all, it’s what Agile has been all about—until now.
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That nagging feeling that you should be doing something else right now.
It’s time to slow down, my friends.
If your meetings are back-to-back, let’s face it, you have too many meetings.
If your first instinct is to check your email, don’t.
If you scrum, unscrum.
Take a deep breath and think about it:
There’s never enough time to do something right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.”
—Melvin Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
So unwind and wander.
Wandering is an essential counter-balance to efficiency. You need to employ both. The outsized discoveries—the ‘non-linear’ ones—are highly likely to require wandering.”
—Jeff Bezos, 2018 Letter to Shareholders
And when you’re ready, come waste your time with me.
