C. Good post and I very much agree. The only thing that struck me was your comment “Today, discovering the right direction is the key. Whether you get there 20% faster than a competitor is just nice to have”. I think this has always been true. Moving quickly & aligned using agile and building the wrong thing for the wrong person was never rewarded or a successful outcome. The best companies get this right and to your point, this is very hard. Agile is not enough and it is a tool that brings cross functional teams together to execute well but the right direction will always be more important.
"You can have the perfect sprint and achieve still nothing" - I've been on teams where this was the case 1/4 of the time. We never would actually fix it though. Just kept moving along like everything was fine. Oof.
"We don’t place people on the side of the road that constantly scream “Well! You just don’t know how to drive! That’s now how the car was designed for!”
This sentence applies equally to Agile, Scrum and products. And yet in the Agile world all we do is scream: you don't know how to drive!
C. Good post and I very much agree. The only thing that struck me was your comment “Today, discovering the right direction is the key. Whether you get there 20% faster than a competitor is just nice to have”. I think this has always been true. Moving quickly & aligned using agile and building the wrong thing for the wrong person was never rewarded or a successful outcome. The best companies get this right and to your point, this is very hard. Agile is not enough and it is a tool that brings cross functional teams together to execute well but the right direction will always be more important.
"You can have the perfect sprint and achieve still nothing" - I've been on teams where this was the case 1/4 of the time. We never would actually fix it though. Just kept moving along like everything was fine. Oof.
I love the ambivalence of this sentence:
"We don’t place people on the side of the road that constantly scream “Well! You just don’t know how to drive! That’s now how the car was designed for!”
This sentence applies equally to Agile, Scrum and products. And yet in the Agile world all we do is scream: you don't know how to drive!
I totally agree with you!! It is about testing hyphoteses rather than just delivery.