Small Steps Are the Fastest Way Forward: Life Beyond Agile & Scrum
summary
Company escapes “technical death” by breaking a 30 million‑line legacy into 150 small components (≈350k LOC) over 4.5 years, adopting bounded contexts and aggregates, full CI/CD with infrastructure as code and ~150 pipelines, and deploying about 40–50 times per day. Teams stop doing Scrum rituals, run short experiments, and organize around a 70/20/10 time split with autonomous microteams solving daily puzzles, proving smaller steps and automation actually speed continuous delivery.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:53Let's discuss quality
- 4:13Technical debt
- 5:47Examples
- 8:32Innovators dilemma
- 12:21Small steps
- 16:48Small steps are the fastest way forward
- 26:28Short cycles
- 27:34Deliver value continuously
- 29:31Infrastructure becomes code
- 32:50Collectives & microteams
- 35:19Fewer rules
- 38:20Microteams
- 41:48There are no best practices
- 44:28Bounded contexts
- 46:30Aggregates
- 49:15Continuous deployment
- 49:51Summary
- 51:36Outro
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