Elephant #17: unfeasible continuous improvement
When people settle for mediocrity, you can forget about continuous improvement.
Read more*The elephants in the room (posts)
This series of posts is aimed to unveil a herd of elephants in the room.
Elephant #16: lack of transparency
A keen interest in removing info from a system is usually a clear symptom of someone’s aversion to transparency.
Read moreElephant #15: cargo cult*
When putting into practice Scrum principles, values and rules, you don’t have to be dogmatic: yet, you need to be
Read moreElephant #14: alignment fallacy
When alignment requires agreement with a well established opinion, chances are improvements and innovation will be postponed sine die.
Read moreElephant #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.
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