Elephant #14: alignment fallacy
When alignment requires agreement with a well established opinion, chances are improvements and innovation will be postponed sine die.
Read moreFirst season
The first season of this series is composed by short posts aimed to unveil a herd of elephants in the room.
Elephant #13: agility fallacy
There’s nothing farer from agility than working rashly, constantly putting out fires. As you may guess, The Phoenix Project (by
Read moreElephant #12: customer satisfaction fallacy*
If testing was only about customer satisfaction, the bug which wrongly rewards all your clients with an unexepected discount should
Read moreElephant #11: sales fallacy
Let’s imagine a customer asks you for a product/service and you, as a consultant and salesperson, just sell them what
Read moreElephant #10: collaboration tools fallacy
Thinking that a collaboration tool will magically make people start communicating from scratch is like thinking that a beached boat
Read moreElephant #9: fake DevOps
Just to make it clear: a DevOps initiative which does not involve Operations is not a DevOps initiative: at most,
Read moreElephant #8: fancy names
Making a start-up’s name end with ‘fy’ (or whatever other trending option), might not guarantee the company’s success.
Read moreElephant #7: fake goals
When an organization has a knack of setting irrelevant and immeasurable goals, chances are they are not really interested in
Read moreElephant #6: results and rules
People’s behaviour within an organization will be unavoidably determined by the results they are asked for and by the rules
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