Agile teams cannot move faster than the approval process allows. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” George S. Patton “The greatest waste in America is failure to use the abilities of people.” W. Edwards Deming Several years ago, I was responsible for delivering an important project that was going exceptionally well. We were ahead of schedule, meeting every major milestone, and operating with the kind o

Separate progress is not the same as integrated progress. Release decisions depend on the second one. “The performance of a system doesn’t depend on how the parts perform taken separately, it depends on how they perform together, how they interact.” Russell L. Ackoff “A bad system will beat a good person every time.” W. Edwards Deming In the last post, I argued that Release on Demand depends on several conditions being true inside the delivery system, and you can find that po

What other legacy processes should we rethink? "Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." General George S....