Safety Is the Foundation of Speed

Nobody would buy a car that was twice as fast as its price-competitors but had no breaks.

The ability to move safely is the ability to move quickly.

The Product Pee-Pee Dance

It's urgent. It's emergent. It's the end of the world!

Get it out now. Right now. No. Now's too late. Get it out then.

I call it the "product pee-pee dance", where an organization hops from foot to foot until they push a product out to production, whether it's ready or not.

Agile Speed

People seem to mistake the point of a lean or agile process's claim to deliver quickly.

They think it means "get people going fast" or "get people working harder". Reduced to its essence, the interpretation is often some form of "get people doing more".

Yet, most of the agile claim to speed is not in how fast someone works. It's in how much they don't do.