{"id":387,"date":"2008-07-06T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judykat.com\/ken\/?p=387"},"modified":"2011-01-01T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T04:26:05","slug":"local-optima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykat.com\/ken-judy\/local-optima\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Optima"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not to get super preachy on you all, but sometimes I think we’re full bore on the wrong mission.” — ‘Agile Shop’ by Dave Laribee<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As people, we embrace change we can ourselves effect. Our conversations about value turn to story writing. Our conversations about competitiveness turn to scale. <\/p>\n

But we risk engaging the surface of things and not the things themselves. Means to what end?<\/p>\n

As brother bee preaches, I stand before you penitent of the sin of local optimization.<\/p>\n

In my last job, I led a development team. We were an agile team in a non-agile company. We were engaged in the effort of years, championing organizational change bottom up.<\/p>\n

In spite of everything we’d built — an excellent agile team, a direct relationship with our CEO, visible release backlogs and delivery — the business remained opaque. It was unable to rally to us and unwilling to provide the transparency and focus we needed to effectively rally to it. <\/p>\n

As a result, our timeline didn’t match the life-cycle of the business. When it was acquired, our efforts were shelved and we all moved on.<\/p>\n

An agile team in a non-agile organization is not agile enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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