Agility ≠ Speed
summary
Agility means the ability to change direction, not raw throughput: measuring progress by velocity or story points produces story point inflation and gaming, and prioritizing by predicted business value confuses estimation with truth. Practical tools and ideas referenced include the OODA/PDSA loops, refactoring as a learning response, and Conway’s law. Surprising data: Facebook iOS shows 18,000 classes / 429 contributors in a week and A/B tests on 700,000 users. Recommendation: slow down to observe, study, then act; scale down, favor diversity and continuous technical excellence.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:13What is agile
- 3:00Time
- 6:40Mantras
- 7:33Speed vs Velocity
- 13:25T and S
- 15:05Business Value
- 25:45Software Engineering 1968
- 28:15What is code
- 29:10codified knowledge
- 30:50software development
- 32:50learning
- 41:45scale
