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What’s Wrong With Training Wheels?

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When I observe teams using Scrum ceremonies that are two decades old, when I see roles that effectively put proxies between the engineering team and the problem to be solved, when I see a company struggling with a scaling process – I see training wheels. We need to stop giving our software teams training wheels: tasks and priorities.

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Grown-Up Lean

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As the company outgrew its traditional cathedral-style software architecture in the early 2000’s, the leadership team felt that the growing pains could be addressed with better communication between teams. Then in the early 2000’s, agile and lean ideas began making inroads into the way software was designed, created, and maintained.