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- hange Is Hard * “Nothing undermines change more than behavior by important individuals that is inconsi... important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives i... ty. You just need to deal with uncertainty better than they do." -- Mike Cohn * "John, the kind of con... Agile 2018) * "Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection." -- Mark Twain * "The best
- thinking_in_bets_-_annie_duke
- sn’t identify their best and worst results rather than their best and worst decisions. **Note:** Exerci... ble futures where things could be better or worse than the path we chose. There is potential opportunity... rmation, and so on. Disinformation is different than fake news in that the story has some true element... average life expectancy of only forty-seven years than sit in the middle of the pack now with an average
- quotable_quotes_ah
- Interactive properties have more effect on profit than isolated ones." – Allen Ward in "Lean Product and... at one alternative is cheaper, easier, and faster than looking at multiple alternatives. This intuition ... at a lot of alternatives early is usually cheaper than looking at a few alternatives later; and choosing... : 1) Slows the process because people wait longer than they need to before starting. 2) Creates one-way
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- silos or bureaucracy that doomed agility, rather than making individual operational decisions." – Gener... l inevitably confront unpredicted threats; rather than erecting strong, specialized defenses, they creat... more or less like the present,' is more hindrance than help." – General Stanley McChrystal in "Team of T... ivocally designed for complicated problems rather than complex ones." – General Stanley McChrystal in "T
- what_inbuilt_biases_do_we_have_that_impede_good_decision_making
- a belief (which might be a logical belief, rather than an emotional one) is either actively searched for or given more credibility than evidence that disconfirms a belief. It stands in ... of conclusions we want to believe to be stronger than arguments for conclusions we do not want to belie... and training causes confidence to increase faster than ability. There is an old saying "In theory, theo
- how_can_we_improve_the_quality_of_feedback_at_an_iteration_demo
- their willingness to work issues. But much worse than this, we are also not getting any feedback from c... o discuss with our stakeholders. If you take more than 5 mins to get to the demos you might want to revi... and make sure that what is happening helps rather than hinders the purpose of the Iteration Demo (Sprint... he answer to them. Shut up! And stay quiet longer than you feel comfortable staying quiet. It is surpris
- how_do_we_encourage_agile_thinking_in_non-agile_organizations_ssa
- ional structure for success]]: Create small (less than 10 people), autonomous, cross-functional, teams w... he mantra "Improving daily work is more important than doing daily work". Encourage tactical automation ... d to be a more effective way doing knowledge work than pretending that that knowledge work is just like ... people to become Teams. These Teams produced more than the sum of their people would indicate. We called
- quotable_quotes_ac
- ple in their boxes and silos. To change this more than incrementally is to fight a losing battle." -- [[... flawed instincts and regularly take on more work than they can actually accomplish." -- [[:the_rollout_... cool. Nothing drives large-scale adoption better than that." -- [[:the_rollout_a_novel_about_leadership... ns trust between teams and business owners better than the PI System Demo." -- [[:the_rollout_a_novel_ab
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- "Motivating your people is always more important than establishing your own favorite processes." – Jurg... these virtues can be improved with posters rather than by hard work and managerial talent." – Tom DeMarc... f states of its control mechanism must be greater than or equal to the number of states in the system be... ther system is just as complex as or more complex than the first one." – W. Ross Ashby's "Law of Requisi
- quotable_quotes_ae
- of a budget * "But do not worry; there is more than enough left for you to do in the backseat: settin... perfect. We want to make better economic choices than we make today, and today, this bar is set very lo... le process, the output that follows will be worse than he had left the process alone" – W Edwards Deming - you can do more harm than good. Don't panic * "Testers don't break the co
- second_generation_lean_product_development_by_don_reinertsen
- ==== All product development decisions have more than one moving part. Therefore have to quantify to ma... s, the range sales is say 4:1 which is way better than the estimates on cost of delay at 50:1 We are be... think about cost of delay Queues cost more money than the cost of engineers Results in U curve to deter... on pricing Area above the line on right is bigger than stuff on left All the variation comes not from th
- what_are_the_changes_in_culture_that_need_to_happen_with_agile
- “Any inefficiency of decentralization costs less than the value of faster response time.”| | "Project M... formance by bringing new work to the team, rather than thinking we can select the optimum group of peopl... | Person | Base principle - "The team is smarter than the individual". How many times have you worked a... dency management nightmare, but goes much further than this (see [[why_should_we_work_harder_to_eliminat
- what_should_we_consider_when_forming_a_new_team
- ablish a rule that says “no person can be on more than two teams”. Practically this means that a (very) ... wo teams. Reason is that if we put people on more than 2 teams, they spend all their life in meetings an... the work. Idea here is that team can become more than “the sum of the parts” if they stay together. Rea... * If you have a reason to create a team with more than 9 people, you add to the risk associated with hav
- how_do_we_deal_with_product_backlog_explosion
- d in the product backlog (actually it tracks more than that, but this subset of product backlog items is... sunderstand the data, leading to confusion rather than clarity. In short, a large list doesn’t just was... people are better at selecting what gets started than deciding (and enforcing) what stops. Make sure yo... teria. For example, "if the item was created more than 2 years ago" or "last viewed more than 1.5 years
- quotable_quotes_ad
- back?" – Clement Stone * "You cannot be smarter than your customer" – [[:safe_-_past_present_and_futur... Yogi Berra * "It is better to be roughly right than to be precisely wrong" – John Maynard Keynes * ... er]] * "Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right." – Peter Drucker * "When... more focused on what I call ‘command and control’ than their military counterparts." * "Diversity trum