Who doesn’t want the power of data?
Management love their metrics and for good reason: “What gets measured gets done.”
The problem is, no data tells good from great. Quite the contrary, actually. Pay too much attention to data and, before you know it, you will miss the point of it all.
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What’s the right process and what’s the right amount of it? No process is chaos. Too much of it is sclerosis.
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Agile doesn’t jibe with big, so the big question is: how do you scale Agile?
The good news is, Agile is common sense, not rocket science.
You can be Agile in a big way when you move beyond the basics and pay attention to three things:
Generally speaking, simplicity is good and complexity is bad.
But there are two sides to every coin and the other side of simplicity is this: simplicity is compelling whether it’s right, or dead wrong.
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Routines are a good way to operate.
But let’s face it: routines are a recipe for rut.
Ergo, systems.
With the help of 10 personalities—Vincent van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway, and Admiral McRaven, just to name a few—allow me to elaborate.
Wondering what this has to do with Agile? Agile is a system and, like any system, it will fail you if you reduce it to mere routines.
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