Book Titles

The Rock Crusher
A Model for Flow-Based Backlog Management

By Hastie Shane, Ryland Leyton, Steve Adolph

Year Published: 2023
ISBN-13: 978-1927584347
Categories: Backlogs, Flow, Management

38 Quotes Found

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The Rock Crusher:

Crushers are about getting rocks to ready, not about partially implementing ready rocks.

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The Rock Crusher:

…when used improperly, metrics are worse than lies, reinforcing our biases and hiding the real problems in our value streams.

228

The Rock Crusher:

Correctly identifying the category of metric you are using is key to understanding what it can tell you – and what it can’t tell you.

231

The Rock Crusher:

Long-term outcomes depend on healthy teams working at a sustainable pace in a psychologically safe environment that enables innovation and creativity.

231

The Rock Crusher:

…if it did not depend, then everything could be strictly rule-based and experience would not count for much.

237

The Rock Crusher:

Coordination delays will rapidly negate the potential additional productivity of adding more individuals.

246

The Rock Crusher:

Brooks’ Law has not changed: Adding people to a late project will only make it later.

246

The Rock Crusher:

…the classical role of the product owner is close to impossible in most contexts.

247