“The stack was at least two feet tall. “How many of you have actually read all this?” I asked. Silence. “But look,” I said to one of the managers, “you signed off on this. There’s your signature. Didn’t you actually read it?” More awkward silence. I didn’t want to pick on him, but the fact is, in project after project, people cut and paste and throw in boilerplate, but no one actually reads all those thousands of pages. They can’t. That’s the point. They’ve set up a system that forces them to endorse a fantasy. So Brent and I got out scissors”
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Jeff Sutherland,
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
