In a revamped, Scrum-driven world, instead of approving a specific plan to build a bridge across a river, a legislative body would say to the highway department, “We want X number of people to be able to travel over this waterway in Y amount of time with Z cost. How you do that is up to you.” That would allow for discovery and innovation. Instead, the norm these days is construction projects that run hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. The reason? As crews work on the project, they discover new problems and new ways of solving them. Instead of stifling that kind of innovation with
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