When enthusiasm outruns systems thinking. “A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.”  W. Edwards Deming “Optimization of parts does not optimize the whole.”  Russell Ackoff In an earlier post, I argued that iterative and incremental  are not project life cycles. They are execution patterns. I covered that distinction in detail there, so I will focus here on why it matters once organizations try to scale. If you are interested in that article, it is here:...