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.

“Trust is not blind faith. Trust is built on transparency and shared understanding.”  Stephen M.R. Covey “Optimization of parts does not optimize the whole.”  Eliyahu M. Goldratt SAFe was not created because Agile stopped working. It emerged because organizations, particularly large ones, began asking Agile to address problems it was never designed to solve on its own. That distinction matters, especially for leaders who watched early Agile initiatives struggle once they enco

“Requirements are guesses. Designs are guesses. Estimates are guesses. What matters is how fast you can find out.”  Mary Poppendieck “The problem isn’t that we don’t know how to build software. The problem is that we don’t know how to build software together .”  Gene Kim Waterfall works very well when you know exactly what you are building. If you are constructing a house, pouring a foundation, or installing a system with fixed specifications, defining the work in detail up f