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

Just because you can release anytime doesn't mean you should! “Speed without control is chaos.” Taiichi Ohno “What we call management consists largely of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”Peter Drucker One of the recurring misunderstandings in discussions about SAFe appears when the phrase Release on Demand enters the conversation. The wording sounds straightforward, and it is often interpreted to mean that organizations should release continuously. Th

If you’ve seen this moment, you already know why Agile stalls. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ”Theodore Roosevelt “You cannot manage knowledge workers the way you managed factory workers. ”Peter Drucker I’ve seen it over and over again. Managers cannot let Scrum be Scrum. They have to meddle. They impose reporting where none is needed.

“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do.” Steve Jobs “Most organizations do not have a technology problem. They have a coordination problem.” Gene Kim I did not begin my career thinking about Agile or SAFe. My early work was focused on large, high-pressure IT projects delivered through waterfall. And if you have lived in that world, you know exactly how the requirements looked. Thousands of “the system shall…” statements created through hundr