Elephant #20: discretionary payments
To all those organizations which promise their employees a conspicuous bonus and change it underway with a discretionary (usually conspicuously
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Elephant #19: clueless solutions
When people start implementing a solution without having a clue about the business problem they are trying to solve, chances
Read moreElephant #18: barriers to learning
The most powerful barrier to learning (hence to improving) is a strong belief that you already know everything.
Read moreElephant #17: unfeasible continuous improvement
When people settle for mediocrity, you can forget about continuous improvement.
Read moreElephant #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
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