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From: Lean Enterprise - Jez Humble


Enormous initiatives, with roadmaps of months or even years, constantly pop up for these types of projects, with lip service paid to working incrementally to solve a real (internal) customer problem. In fact, teams building these systems are often dismissive of their customers’ needs and preferences — we often hear statements such as “we know what they need better than them.”

Projects run in this way, without regularly delivering incremental value to their customers in order to get feedback, are an appalling waste of time and resources and rarely achieve their intent, outcome, or objectives. But there are other serious negative consequences: internal systems that are painful to use make employees frustrated, impact morale and their ability to do their work effectively.
From: Freedom from Command & Control (Productivity press)

“dysfunctional behavior is ubiquitous and systemic, not because people are wicked, but because the requirement to serve the hierarchy competes with the requirement to serve customers… people’s ingenuity is engaged in survival, not improvement.”