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October 30, 2019 - February 9, 2021
When this experiment is discussed in classrooms, it is usually pointed out to students that it is the system within which those ordinary people were operating that was the culprit, rather than the people themselves.
What it says is that we’re all creatures of the system we find ourselves embedded in.
What Scrum does is accept this reality, and, instead of seeking someone to blame, it tries to examine the system that produced the failure and fix it.
You’d think that seminarians would be the most compassionate people on the planet, right?
Ten percent. Of seminarians.
The Fundamental Attribution Error
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People drank on the job, didn’t show up for work, and subtly sabotaged the cars (by, for example, putting a Coke bottle inside a door, where it would rattle and annoy customers).
Toyota Production System.
Almost immediately the NUMMI plant was producing cars with the same precision and as few defects as cars that were produced in Japan.
Same people, differen...
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“default position”
How the company spent the other guys’ money isn’t important. It’s only the future—only the solutions—that matter.
Reaching “Great”
This was a sports fan in high dudgeon.
The problem was, none were on the kicker’s team.
It was a total surprise.
It was the kind of synchronicity that is inspiring to watch.
Scrum.
It’s about setting up the right
framework with the right incentives and giving people the freedom, respect, and authority to do things themselves. Greatness can’t be imposed; it has to come from within. But it does live within all of us.
THE TAKEAWAY Pull the Right Lever.
Transcendence.
Autonomy.
Cross-functional.
Small Wins.
Blame Is Stupid.
Time
Time
The relentless one-way flow of time fundamentally shapes how we view the world and ourselves.
“Had we but world enough, and time” anything could be accomplished. But, of course, a sense of mortality hovers over our every effort. We know our time is limited. As such, isn’t it the greatest of crimes to waste it?
Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
While I have nothing against promotions, sales, or projects, it’s just a fact that humans are absolutely terrible at working that way.
We’re lousy focusers, we spend far more hours in the office than needed, and we’re horrible estimators of how long things will take. This is all people I’m talking about—it’s how we humans simply are.
I simply wanted to gather together all the research that had been done for decades on how people work best and emulate that.
the Sprint.
The Sprint
Every three weeks each team had to demonstrate to their colleagues what it was working on.
This forced the students to build neat stuff fast and, most important, to get immediate feedback on it.
In business it could mean the difference between success and failure.
The sooner you give things to your customers, the quicker they can tell you if you’re making something they need.
And I told him that each month I’d show him a piece of working software.
A piece of software that a customer can actually use. A fully implemented feature.
“Sprints.”
We were going to work all out for a short period of time and then stop to see where we were.
WIKISPEED”
WIKISPEED
And they use Scrum to do it.
And by “do” they mean “done”—done
