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> The optimal approach is almost always in-between and yet, frustratingly, nobody advocates for balance and nuance. I'm feeling grumpy and decaffinated this mo

• BLKNSLVR 3y ago
  You should be grumpy and decaffeinated more often, them's the cracks through which the truth shines.
• ChrisSD 3y ago
  But saying things like "everything is somewhere in the middle" and "use common sense" is just as much marketing speak. It's meaningless to the point it's very successfully used in both marketing and politics (but I repeat myself). The key thing is you can set the parameters so that whatever you're selling happens to fall squarely in the middle. And of course anything can be common sense so long as you can successfully ridicule the alternatives and describe your solution in a way that sounds plausible(ish).
  • Draiken 3y ago
    The reality is that it's not exactly "in the middle" either. It's the simple fact that we must really think and carefully consider these decisions and processes. But the vast majority of people don't want to think. They want recipes to follow. That's why anything that provides a recipe, like scrum, OKRs and so forth, will get sold as a solution for all of our problems. And inevitably lazy people will follow it. It ALWAYS depends on the context in which these processes are in, but most don't want to spend real time figuring this out. Just adopt what Google, Spotify (squads anyone?), <insert hyped company here> uses.
• quickthrower2 3y ago
  Oh I am sure you could come up with myriad processes, rituals and ethos and give it a snazzy name like “zero-sigma” (alluding to being the average way)