Nothing has resonated more with the way I work than this. Plan, act, reflect in practical terms. Build, measure, learn in lean terms. Vita activa, vita contemp

Nothing has resonated more with the way I work than this. Plan, act, reflect in practical terms. Build, measure, learn in lean terms. Vita activa, vita contemplativa, and sensemaking in academic or philosophical terms. Alistair Cockburn, Allen Hollub, and Bonita Roy in software terms. It’s all a cycle. It doesn’t matter which page from which of those playbooks you take from on any given Sunday. They are remarkably consistent. The observation I’ve made is that friends who succeed at this deftly avoid agile cliches and their teams are focused and efffective while checking all the boxes from crystal clear or spolsky’s list or accelerate. This points to the fact that agile has become the cargo cult dogma it set out to replace twenty years ago.