Early morning scrum meetings, sprints, backlog grooming, planning, estimation, demo and post mortem's the process is well defined but flexible. But sometimes the process becomes the 'finger pointing at the moon' the team becomes more focused on the process than the product. This is especially true of teams that don't follow and learn from their product as it is shipped into the market, as an MVP or simply a new version. Without a feedback loop a system or process can't adjust it's performance to meet the desired output, or what the customer really wants, it just keeps putting out ... well stuff. I have seen more than one highly efficient agile team follow an optimized process and produce bits that no one ever used, and it's a shame, customer feedback would have changed everything. Spend more time looking at the product and not the process.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Perfect Process Doesn't Always Make Perfect Product
Early morning scrum meetings, sprints, backlog grooming, planning, estimation, demo and post mortem's the process is well defined but flexible. But sometimes the process becomes the 'finger pointing at the moon' the team becomes more focused on the process than the product. This is especially true of teams that don't follow and learn from their product as it is shipped into the market, as an MVP or simply a new version. Without a feedback loop a system or process can't adjust it's performance to meet the desired output, or what the customer really wants, it just keeps putting out ... well stuff. I have seen more than one highly efficient agile team follow an optimized process and produce bits that no one ever used, and it's a shame, customer feedback would have changed everything. Spend more time looking at the product and not the process.
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