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

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:...