Mastering Cargo Cult — Dunning, Kruger and the Agile Bias Curve
summary
Examines common "cargo cult" adoption of agile practices—like blindly implementing Scrum, OKRs, or checklists—by naming the mistaken causalities and misconceptions that follow. Discusses problems from peer evaluations, the misconception that self-organization turns every employee into an entrepreneur, and how misapplied methods from Management 3.0 or notions of "equal footing" can cause more harm than good.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Cargo cult explained
- 1:54Strengthening strengths as cargo cult
- 7:07Hierarchy paradoxes
- 17:16Culture follows structure?
- 25:21Error culture vs learning culture
- 28:31Self-organization
- 31:37Trust and control
- 37:39Scatter plots and intuition
- 44:00Q&A
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