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An Interview

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Every large agile framework that I know of is an excuse to avoid the difficult and challenging work of sorting out the organization’s system architecture so that small agile teams can work independently. For example, the dependencies generated by the big back end of a banking system is a huge source of friction for product teams.

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Grown-Up Lean

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It involves a lot of automation and is usually accompanied by a change in system architecture, organizational structure, and incentives (more on that later). That’s when newly minted internet companies tried to grow systems many times larger than any enterprise could manage. See Idea 26: Innovate by Reducing Friction. [18]