Book Titles

Sooner Safer Happier
Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility

By Jonathan Smart

Year Published: 2022
ISBN-13: 978-1950508419
Categories: Agility, Happiness, Safety

168 Quotes Found

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Sooner Safer Happier:

The goal is to make the environment as simple as possible, and no simpler.

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IT products should be continually refactored so they are always up to date. Systems naturally entropy if left untouched. The weeds grow.

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Spend time breaking those dependencies rather than just managing them.

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…long-lived teams come to understand the unarticulated needs of the customer.

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People have ‘T’-shaped skills – they are generalizing specialists with a deep expertise in a skill set and an expectation and willingness to help out broadly on the team where help is needed.

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The multidisciplinary nature of the teams minimizes handoffs and dependencies on other teams, enabling flow, fast feedback, learning, and agility.

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Coaching is something that leaders at all levels should be doing.

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For knowledge work, the main cost in a value stream is people. This cost cannot (and should not) be easily turned on or off.

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…in order to optimize for the fast flow of safe value end-to-end, have multidisciplinary long-lived teams on long-lived products on long-lived value streams.

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Articulating unique product development work as outcome hypotheses creates a clear expectation that it is a hypothesis and may be invalid…

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